Setting tapes

To set the tapes on a cylinder printing machine, pass the type round and close to the cylinder. Lap it over one of the tape pulleys, and then pass it around the small guide pulleys on the shaft above. To increase its tightness, throw up the guide pulley from the shaft, and set the binding screw more tightly. All these pulleys are moveable on their shafts, and the distance between them may be altered at pleasure. Let the tapes rest upon the outer margin of the sheet, and see that the overlays on the tympan over which the tapes pass are of equal thickness; if not of equal thickness, the sheet will wrinkle.