Making margin
Arranging the pages so that each may occupy one side of a leaf and have the proper proportion of white paper left at the sides as well as at the head and foot. The page, when printed, should be a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and have a little more margin on the outside than in the back. The methods now resorted to are as follows:—
For a half-sheet of 8vo., dress the chase with suitable furniture, and fold a sheet of “its own” into the 8vo. size. Place the back of the paper on a level with the ends of the lines in the 8th page, and let it extend a Pica em beyond the outer edge of page 1; if no wider than the rest, this will give a proper margin to the back, and allow one em for cutting; now open the paper to a 4to., and place one edge against the ends of the lines of page 7, and let it extend to, and not beyond, the outer edge of page 1, taking care that the furniture is equally divided on each side of the short bar.
Having in this manner made the margin to the breadth of the paper, now proportion it to the length by trying whether the depth of the paper, folded in 8vo., will extend from the folio of page 8 to the bottom of page 5, including the white line, having the furniture equally proportioned at heads each side the long bar. This quarter may now be considered as right, and the others may be adjusted exactly the same. The furniture for the sheet is also furnished in the same manner. In making margin always take care that the gutter-sticks be of a proper breadth, which may be tried by holding one end of the paper folded into 4to. to the centre of the groove in the short cross, to observe whether the fold for 8vo. falls in the middle of the gutter-stick; if it should, it will prove the cutter to be correct.
The margin of 12’s and other sizes may be made in the same manner; for, having carefully folded a sheet of paper intended for the work, one quarter may be first dressed, and the margin adjusted before proceeding further; for if the folding falls in the centre of the respective parts of the furniture it proves that the margin is right throughout. Having made the proper margins, nothing remains but to fit the side and foot sticks and quoins, and lock-up the formes, observing well that every page stands square to ensure a true register.
In imposing jobs, where two or more of the same size requiring equal margins are to be worked together, fold the paper to the size appropriate for each, and so arrange the type that the distance from the left side of one page to the left side of the adjoining one shall be exactly equal to the width of the folded paper, as before described.
Making margin
Arranging the pages so that each may occupy one side of a leaf and have the proper proportion of white paper left at the sides as well as at the head and foot. The page, when printed, should be a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and have a little more margin on the outside than in the back. The methods now resorted to are as follows:—
For a half sheet of 8vo., dress the chase with suitable furniture, and fold a sheet of “it’s own” into the 8vo. size. Place the back of the paper on a level with the ends of the lines of the 8th page, and let it extend a Pica em beyond the outer edge of page 1; if no wider than the rest, this will give a proper margin to the back, and allow one em for cutting: now open the paper to a 4to., and place one edge against the ends of the lines of page 7, and let it extend to and not beyond, the outer edge of page 1, taking care that the furniture is equally divided on each side of the short bar.
Having in this manner made the margin to the breadth of the paper, now proportion it to the length by trying whether the depth of the paper, folded in 8vo., will extend from the folio of page 8 to the bottom of page 5, including the white line, having the furniture equally proportioned at the heads each side of the long bar. This quarter may now be considered as right, and the others may be adjusted exactly the same. The furniture for the sheet is also furnished in the same manner. In making margin always take care that the gutter-sticks be of a proper breadth, which maybe tried by holding one end of the paper folded into 4to. to the centre of the groove in the short cross, to observe whether the fold for 8vo. falls in the middle of a gutter-stick; if it should, it will prove the gutter to be correct.
The margins for 12’s and other sizes may be made in the same manner; for, having carefully folded a sheet of paper intended for the work, one quarter may be first dressed, and the margin adjusted before proceeding further; for if the folding falls in the centre of the respective parts of the furniture it proves that the margin is right throughout. Having made the proper margins, nothing remains but to lit the side and foot sticks and quoins and lock-up the formes, observing well that every page stands square to ensure a true register.
In imposing jobs, where two or more of the same size requiring equal margins are to be worked together, fold the paper to the size appropriate for each, and so arrange the type that the distance from the left side of one page to the left side of the adjoining one shall be exactly equal to the width of the folded paper, as before described.