The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-14

scarcely ever two at a time. An
up-to-date job printing house sets
two or more forms and prints letter
heads in quantity on large sheets
that contain two or more letterheads
printed at one impression, and they
are cut apart into letterhead sizes
after they are printed and dried.
That cuts down expense and either
saves money for the customer or
makes more profits for the printer
or both.
Banks use deposit slips and checks
in large quantities. They are small
slips and are usually purchased in
quantities of 100000 or more at
time. If Bingham county printer
were asked to estimate the cost of
a quantity of deposit slips he would
probably plan to print about two or
four slips at time and that would
not be good business. If he tried to
set a good many forms to print all
on one large sheet to be cut into the
smaller slips after printing, he would
find that he had not enough type OF
the particular letters required to set
repeat lines for that plan. Suppose
the name of the bank which appears
once at the top and once at the bot
tom of the slip read this way-The
First National Bank. When the
printer had set it three or four times
he would run out Of the letter A and
the letter N. When he had set the
line, Blackfoot, Idaho, few times
he would run out of the letters o and
A, so he could not set enough forms
to do efficient press work. If he
could set he form ten times and
print ten slips every time the press
made one impression, he would be
increasing efficiency in press work
1000 per cent as compared with
printing the old way ,one slip at a
time If he set twenty forms and
printed twenty slips with each i'm
preston, he would be increasing eff
ficiency 1000 per cent, but the Bing- |
ham county job printer can't do 1t
because he has not the equipment.
When this is mentioned, the UNI
progressive printer remarks that 1t
takes so much time to set all these |
extra nine or nineteen forms, 1t
hardly pays to do 1t. He could set |
one or two forms and have the job |
going before he could get the type
set on the other plan. And that fs
the truth IL the printer depends upon |
movable type. But If he has the
type casting machine that casts full |
line slugs and has repeating lever |
that can be locked SO the operator |
can go on about his work and have |
the machine go on casting ten,
twenty or fifty slugs all alike, he can
be building them into the form while
the machine casts the next slug and
repeats it the desired number OF
times, and SO on to the end Of the
task In this way the one large |
form made up of ten or twenty or
fifty small forms for the individual
slips can be completed quickly and
there is no such thing as running
out of the kind of letters because
the machine is making them new
and beautiful as needed.
If the printer set one form and
led the press by hand he could print
eight or ten thousand a day and be
4 tried man at night. If he had
suitable equipment and press large
enough to print ten at a time, he
could with the same effort print
eighty or a hundred thousand, or
perhaps a little less than that be-
cause he cannot handle the large
sheets quite SO rapidly as the very
,mall ones. But II he had modern
press that feeds automatically he
Gould speed it to about $500 an hour
md have the Job done In half day