Making-up

The operation of forming matter into pages. In printing-offices where the clicking system is not acted upon, each compositor makes up his own matter. The compositor who has the first take on the work proceeds without delay to make it up as soon as he has completed it. Having completed as many pages as his matter will make, he passes the overplus, if less than half a page, with the correct head and folio, to the compositor whose matter follows his, at the same time taking an account of the number of lines loaned; if, on the contrary, the overplus makes more than half a page, he borrows a sufficient number of lines to complete his page; each compositor keeping an account of the number of lines borrowed and loaned. The second compositor, following the same course, passes the make-up to the next in succession; each man passing the make-up in like manner without tumecessary delay. But on newspapers and periodicals, the “printer” undertakes this duty; as also do. clickers in companionships.