The Nevada picayune., 1885-09-10
Printers Errors.

40 sa tlhiSct AAlN VI type may truthfully be called the best (and worsD abused men in the world, and without sufficient reason. Very few outside of the trade know the difficulties under which they labor, or have a faint conception of the skill, care and patience required. Absolute cor rectness is prime essential to se- cure public appreciation, and how very little assistance. Copy" poorly prepared is a great desider alum and rarely received. That which is called "good" is often the reverse. It may be fair to the eye and yet blind to the sense. The ratron does not exactly know what he needs. If he has any ideas up on the subject they may be per verted ones, and the little smatter. ing he has of the art tends to lead him astray and demand impossi- bilities. His judgement has been trained in the matter of letters. He knows nothing of justification" except that he believes he has it in the largest sense to give the print CT "particular fits" when an error is found. Why siX-line pica and nonpariel can be made to chime likc notes of music is beyond his ideas of eternal fitness of inanimate mat ter. According to his views 1t Is the most simple of undertakings to set, make up and work off one hun dred pages, more or less, in the most unreasonably short space ot time.
 ! Before pouring out the yials of their wrath upon the head of the printer, it might do we'll for men to pause and consider how much he is to blame. Somewhere in our desultory reading we have met with the statement that any old piece ot Mosaic work containing 8 few hundred pieces is exalted to the skies and pronounced wonder. ful. It required patience, no doubt, probably taste and study, but Carrying out the drift of the article readD how very little ill com parison to the tens and hundreds of thousands of still more splendid and minute particles the printer is required to handle to make up pa per or book. Take solid page of the "Cabinet' as an example. It contains some 27,000 "ems,' or about Sl 900 letters. This is great ly more than any Mosaic work known. And they had to be plac' ed without any chiseling or sand papering, as could bo done in the delicate work of table, chair or picture.
 Taking this as a basis, calcution is easy as to the amount of type compositor handles during his hours of daily labor in distributing anG setting. Easy it is also to con ceive how such little fragments of metal will slip out of place. how a letter or space may be dropped, word spelled incorrectly, a point be wrong, how errors will creep in despite all care-and the generous public be outraged at the "gross carelessness and stupidity of the printer "
 Errors do occur, we mnst admit, but they are fabulously uncommon when compared to chances of their being made, and books and papers are monuments to the correctness of the craft, their swiftness and certainty of touch, education and never-ceasing vigilance.
 We write not this for the craft. They practically know the truth of our words. But we do write for the multitude of outsiders, and with the hope that the simple illus trations we have given may open their eyes to the great injustice done to those who, with their noses in the space box" toll away their lives for the benefit of the world at large.-Rounds' Printer.
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