Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-24

lprilting is necessary on account o.
time in preparing press. as black ink
| IS commonly used. Whole press and
| rollers has 70 be cleaned AZ least once
and ofteltimes several times
i'll order to get best results.
On short run double pay on color work
is only a fair price. Black ink is cheap
er and will go much farther than col
| ored ink. More colored ink is wasted in
cleaning up. etc. than used on ordi-
nary job. Copying ink Injuries rollers.
TO not have enough color work IL have
press especially for it.
| a competent compositor can set IN
40" 10 5000 ems Der day. This would
include supplying his case. etc.
raw for such compositor here is
VI In Sla per week. The Is per
cent. allowed on stock is on original
bi'l Lot on bill including freight. etc.
inns allowance covers waste, interest
IfelSht. etc. Work is delivered to bind
ers as fast as possible Very little COM
plant to us from any department on
account of delay"
fere MIR. Sewall asked some cues
tons Of Mr. Flynt regarding an al
iesea delay in printing the pamphlet
Oh tfeed memorial add ess. Mr.. Flynt
showed by his records that the COW
vas received, Feb. 2S. 1903 proofs talk
en- Narch :. and press work COMPLETED
| Nafch ~. This was before the Legis-
| iatlre had adjourned and in the mids,
Of Il great rush OF work. Mr.. Sewal,
| WAS very prompt To acknowledge thar
| there had been no delay and that he
| bad done an injustice to the printer in
he matter.
| Mr.. Fiynt Went On as follows: The
rush on the Revised Statutes cause |
some delay 10 department work. las.
| "car. The improvements in machinery
| have Rad the effect of making a better
class of work and u quicker demand
| for il but has rot ck,anened cost in
printer. Typesetting cannot be done a.
(hearlv as 10 years ago. We pay price
| and half for overtime work. IL is n
| loss to have an excessive amount
| Of overtime work done in
office, as the crew doing work in extra
hours falls OF IN work in regular
hours. Among printers ]! to 81 per
| cent. margin is allowed on stock to
| cover waste. freight. insurance. etc.
| The Law allows us II per cent. This Al
| loWance is made by auditor on bill for
| original cost.
| For the plain composition for which
Maine pays ~ GEMS per 1000 ems,
Rhode Island pays 80 cents and Massa-
chusettS 60 cents. Tn, Maine Press AS
ISOLATION recommends not less than 60
| cents as the price among Maine job
| printers. For :ule and figure work
Maine pays 20 cents. Rhode Island 100
| cents Massachusetts S.2G. while the
| Maine Press Association recommends
$50 cents for same kind of work No
| complaint were made to us about qull-
| lty OF printing. About two thirds of
work done by us is book work
Orders fo:' job work come dirn2,
| from department and are entered in
same book use for private jobs ThH
| book j. here. Eacn job is numbered and
the same number follows the job to the
end. being used on proof etc and on
envelope in whir h original copy and
| II oof is flied away. All these envelopes
are stored at our nffica and are at ser
| vice Of the committee if desired. When
| job is delivered 10 department and re-
| Ceipt is given ~ the depal tment head
This receipt is pasted to sample of job
ana sent to the auditor. stephen Ber-
ry of Portland who is appointed bv
Governor and Council. The Sc are sent
to the auditor every two or three
months. l maze figures on each job
and Mr. Berry goes over these. In fig
uring up jobs take them according to
size, stock etc rather than chronology
cally. as this saves mach time After
Mr.. Berry ADULTS the bills he returns
them 10 US, with receipts. samples etc
The receiptS from the department ar,
or voucher to the auditor and have
ial value after approval Of bill by au-
ditOr. It has never been suggested
that we preserve them. Would gladly
have sent them to Governor and Coun-
Gil if they had Iecn asked for. BY 60
ing to departments all work charged
for could be verified by taking time
enough to go over books and records.
AT ST. per week a oomrositor would
be paid =; cents per 200 ems if he set
5000 ems daily. Many other elements
come into composition besides cost of
setting type, about - ce:ts more per
200 ems in all. This does not include
light. heat, office expenses or anything
of that kind.
"Since we put in linotype machines |
we have kept daily record Of work |
done. we have found that on newspa-
per composition for q period of three |
months the average of day operator |
was 40.093 ems and of a night operator |
was 4l.,71. In the same time on the |
hook machine the Law operator ave..
aged 1856 ems and the night operator |
1866. 1t costs for labor and actu-
al expenses of operation &c cents |
per 1000 ems for type on the galley. This
is for book wo.k. Other items Of ex-
pensc bring actual cost up to about 46
cent, per 1000 Ems. For this we are
paid ~ cents by State.
This does not mean it is done at i
loss, however, as the saving Of type
brings UP return above A. cents. A
printer always saves type when he can
10 be used again if poss IDLE. This has
always been done by printers. Book
work would be done at loss at A.
cents per thousand if type could not be
saved. This saving Of type was taken
in consideration when the contract at
present prices was made by the Iegis-
latiye committee in 1892. | was be-
fore that lepivIn two copnrpittaa and ifc |