Jobbing office

An office in which jobbing-work mainly is executed. Jobbing offices form a large majority of the printing establishments throughout the country. Many of them include both news-work and book-work. The great difference between a news-office and a job-office lies in the variety of the founts in the latter. In the one there are few different kinds of founts, but each of them is exceedingly extensive; in the other the founts are much smaller but vastly more numerous.

The departments of a job-office are: the composing department, the printing department, and the warehouse. The composing department includes founts of all the regular-sized plain letters, from Nonpareil or less to Pica, as well as selections from the fancy types—Titlings, Condensed, Expanded, Sanseriff, Skeleton, Antique, Clarendon, Elongated, Grotesque, Classic, Tuscan, Latin, Romanesque, Augustan, old English, Script, Secretary, Mercantile; and in addition, a stock of wood and metal poster letters, rules, dashes, and ornaments; furniture, reglet, leads, and quotations; imposing surfaces and frames, galley and forme racks, composing frames, cases, galley press, shooters, mallet, planers, and quoins, composing sticks, and sundries. The printing department includes engine and boiler, machines, rollers, ink, banks, horses, wetting-trough, boards. &c. The warehouse department includes standing presses, glazed boards, cutting machines, rolling, card-cutting, numbering, and perforating machines.

Even after all these appliances have been acquired there is a constant necessity for novelties and improvements, in order to complete successfully with other houses in the business. For descriptions of the various appliances see the names of each in its alphabetical order.