Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-28
MAINE PRESS.
Brilliant Close to 42d
Annual Meeting.
Reception to Members by Hon.
and Mrs. w. H. Gannett.
Report on Job Printing.-Next Sum-
mer's Excursion to RangeIey.

Friday was the second and closing
day of the 42d annual meeting of the
Maine Press Association. The bust
neSs session of the morning was fol-
lowed by literary exercises in the af-
| ternoOn. and the brilliant reception
rendered 10 the members and their la
dies last evening by Hon. and Mrs. w.
II. Gannett gave the occasion a most
successful and enjoyable ending. The
| attendance WAS larger than on the first
day, and it was a matter of especial
satisfaction that among the new arri-
| walls We're all three of the surviving
charter members of the association.
| Joseph A. Homan. of Augusta: Hiram
*. Morr"ll of Gardiner. ana William A.
PidSin OF Lewiston.
The morning session was held in the
room of the judiciary committee and
one of the first matters on the program
was the report upon last summers
Press excursion to the St. Louis EX
position, which was read by II. F..
Rowditch. The matter of the 1908
summer excursion was then taken up
ma among the places proposed were
kineo. Sorrento. Boothbay Harbor
Aroostook county. Lake cobbssee-
cntee. Ranseley lakes. Naples and
Songo river. and York Harbor ana Kit
cry. 1t was finally voted. after con-
siderable discussion. that the excur-
sion be to the Rangeley lakes, with
York Harbor as Il second choice. The
ietailS We're lett To IL committee con-
|iStinS OF MeSSrS. Dunbar. Bracket
and Hunter. 1t WAS also voted that
1t the next meeting. which will be held
N Portland during the last week in
January. 1906. 4 banquet be made Il
part of the program. with the literary
'Xercises following it.
Thomas ID. Sale of Portland. chair
man of the committee on job printing
submitted the following report which
WAS unanimously adopted:
Your committee that was appointed
20 formulate Il price list for job print
ing has had this matter under advise
ment. and consider that such a list
would be practically worthless unless
all abide by the prices adopted This
has been tried for several years in this
association. ana we have heard il re-
ported from good authority that a Ger
tam printer in the State who could no:
10 any better work than some others
had this list pasted up in his office. ana
when Il customer came in he would
show him the prices and inform him
That he would do the work for about
| "ne-half the regular rates.
Now in regard to prices. We think
that for ordinary plain composition
Ike straight book work that sixty
cents per thousand ems is as low as
5ucn work can be done with profit, and
my matter set in type larger than IL
Point should be reckoned as ll-Poin,.
FOR work where ii is necessary to set
| names and ditto or to have columns
me Oh a page. - cents per thousand.
For rule work where there are two OF
more columns like a list Of names. To-
cation. and address, double price For
tabular work. triple price. In setting
up letter head. or bill head. an envel-
ope corner, or business card. nothing
less than fifty cents. and from that up.
depending upon the display and the
amount of composition. In corrections
rom copy. or rather authors correc-
IONS. sixty cents per hour should be
charged. In blank book work i, is al
most impossible to make any definite
rule. but il is safe to say that no head
ing should be set for less than sey.nty-
five cents.
In regard to press work. from the
very best information that your COM
m1ttee can obtain, we find that the
average cost for one thousand impress
SionS on al eighth medium is about 80
cents per thousand. 81 cents on "A quar-
Ter medium. - cents for q half medium
Si'' Tor pony cylinders. and, $1.51 for
urge cylinders. We think that a
fair price Tor press work on a small
press would be 50 cents per hour, and
on larger size platen presses S1.O0 per
hour. In case there is half-tone cut
10 be made ready. 40 cents additional
should lie added to press work Now
ii we had a thousand letter heads to
print with the ordinary corner and a
date line, We would charge a man so
cents for the composition. 1t will
take about an hour and half from the
time presSman starts to lock up his
job until his chase is ready for the
next job, and this would he considered
Si.2O for the press work. Now if you
used ten-pound letter head costing l.
cents per pounn. it would make $3.50
for the stock. Adding 20 per cent. to
this for profit. it makes $50 for the
job complete. which is a fair price for
the customer to pay and for the printer
to receive.
We think this illustration sufficient
to form a basis for the printing OF
other jobs like bill heads packet heads.
etc. Press work for cylinder presses
should be reckoned at $l.o5 per hour
for man ami press. If there are half
tone cuts to be made ready on cylin-
1erS. these should be charged for. ac-
cOrdirg to size and time it takes to get
them ready. We would refer the
printers of this association to the desk
book issued by the American Type
foundries Co, commencing on page
41. and if no printer in Maine would
do job for less price than what is
given there the ha bit of chasing from
one office to another to get price
would he done away with.
Mr.. McLeary of Pennington has sent
ir a little folder of prices for small job
printing, ard we think il would be well
for this association to have COM
mittee look over this pamphlet. make
such rcvisions as they think necessary.