The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-07

AlD47o--~ WW ~ "a ESlwhen htho-
graphic print
er shifts stone in a press without due
regard to the paper beneath, harmless
in itself, but by this shifting is rolled
up, and the first impression breaks the
stone in pieces. What letter press
printer exists but who sometime in his
life has not seen form carelessly and
loosely locked, and seen several days
composition made into pi, and many
an artist, with glass of water on his
working desk, has spilled it over a
nearly finished crayon by moving a
stone trife.
A very great mystery occurs to the.
printer when a stone breaks, and all
he has done is merely placed the stone,
In winter time, near the stove, to make
it sufficiently warm to print from, but
the stone gets heated too quickly, or
somebody in the printing department
wrings his sponge and drops little
cold water on the stone, when the
printer, who only placed one stone to
dry, has many to cool. If not broken
at the time sufficient to fall to pieces,
when locked in the press one OF two
revolutions will transmit the we'll
known aud ever to be dreaded sound
of multiplication applied to litho-
graphic stone.
Some time ago a waif, parentage un-
known, was making the rounds of the
trade journals, stating that fine stone
was broken by reason of its back being
covered with sheet of paper for pre-
serving drawing thereon; then q
piece of it became loose in lifting, and
in shifting the stone into the press it
rolled up as hard as iron, and the
stone, forty by sixty inches, and worth
thousand dollars, broke at the first
impression.
Who has not seen where the benzine-
used in washing rollers was poured
into the sink for safety, and boy,
on quitting work at night, would
wash his hands, light the gas, and
throw the burning match into
the sink, and if the benzine.
had not been washed out or evADo-
rated what else but disastrous explo~
sion, and perhaps confagration, could
in reason be expected? And the daily
papers still chronicle great fires, with
fearful losses of life and property, at
tributing it's origin to unknown causes.
Spontaneous combustion has ceased
to be one of the mysteries; hence the
pile of dirty rags, made SO by carbons,
such as turpentine, lampblack, ben
zine alcohol, and oils wiped from type
and machinery, should never be al
lowed to accumulate either in the
printing establishment or paper ware
rooms.
A Job has been transferred and
printed in six colors, for instance,
forty-fve thousand sheets, where the
blue plate was printed in flesh color
and the flesh color in blue, and was not
discovered until. printing the blue
last, the face of the figures were no
ticed to be in blue. Take out the faces
and print new blush gray thereon
died, but the edition will be saved, ss-
pecially if the accompanying mistake
of printing the sky flesh color had
not been discovered.
There are a great many little mys-'
ferrous chemical processes also I'M
known to printers and manufacturers,
and they should not always be held
| responsible for some of these mishaps,
Sometimes drawings and etchings, es-
pecially crayon drawings, when prop
erly and we'll etched, will not always
take the ink freely and easily as they
do at other times. All printers like to
work when the drawing is sucking the
ink from the roller freely, and with the
thinnest film Of ink good, sharply
defined, black impression can be OBJ
tanned. But the feelings of the printer
are not pleasant if with good rollers
and good ink the impression is fat and
the color hungry. The cause is purely
a chemical one, generally, beginning
with the water the stone is polished
with sweeping over the stone, even in
a wet condition, with a sweaty hand;
using the water that has been used
before and is in the granting box-the
sand the stone is grained with; even a
sheet of paper the stone is rubbed off
with, may cause all the trouble.