Paper and Printing Recipes / A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades
A Handy Volume of Practical Reci- pes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Print- ers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades.
PUBLISHED BY J. SAWTELLE FORD, OFFICE OF “THE STATIONER AND PRINTER,” CHICAGO.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by J. SAWTELLE FORD, In the Office of the Librarian at Washington.
This Volume has nearly Two Hundred valuable Recipes for Stationers, Printers, Bookbinders, etc. These Recipes are thoroughly practical, and such as come up in every day’s work. They have been gathered from many sources, and are endorsed by the best workmen of the United States and Europe.
Common writing ink may be removed from paper without injury to the print by oxalic acid and lime, carefully washing it in water before restoring it to the volume.
Pencil notes found in a book, or placed there as annotations, may be rendered indelible by washing them with a soft sponge dipped in warm vellum size or milk.
Grease may be removed from paper in the following manner: Warm gradually the parts containing the grease, and extract as much as possible of it by applying blotting-paper. Apply to the warm paper with a soft, clean brush, some clear essential oil of turpentine that has been boiled, and then complete the operation by rubbing over a little rectified spirits of wine.
A simple method for detecting arsenic in paper, cards, etc., is described as follows:—Immerse the suspected paper in strong ammonia on a white plate or saucer; if the ammonia becomes blue, the presence of salt of copper is proved; then drop a crystal of nitrate of silver into the blue liquid, and, if any arsenic be present, the crystal will become coated with yellow arseniate of silver, which will disappear on stirring.
The process consists in moistening the paper with water and then passing over the lines in writing a brush which has been wet in a solution of sulphide of ammonia. The writing will immediately appear quite dark in color, and this color, in the case of parchment, it will preserve.
John Sawtelle Ford
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GLIMPSE OF CONTENTS.
INDEX TO RECIPES.
Paper and Printing Recipes.
How to Remove Common Writing Ink From Paper Without Injury to the Print.
To Render Pencil Notes Indelible.
To Remove Grease Spots from Paper.
How to Detect Arsenic in Paper.
An Ink Restorer.
Colors for Holding Bronze.
Stencil Ink.
Copying Ink to be Used Without Press or Water.
White Ink.
Purple Hektograph Ink.
A Dark Red Indelible Ink.
To Make a Carmine.
Violet Ink.
Indelible Ink.
How to Remove Ink-stains from the Hands.
Treatment of India Ink Drawings.
Black Ink.
Ink for Rubber Stamps.
Cardinal Ink.
An Article for Labeling Bottles.
How to Remove Aniline Ink from the Hands.
An Ink which Cannot be Erased.
To Make Black Ink.
Black Ink for Stencils.
Marking Ink.
Blue Marking Ink for White Goods.
Blue-Black Writing Paper.
Coloring Metals.
For Cheaply Gilding Bronzes, Etc.
How To Clean a Chamois Skin.
Hints on Dressing the Store Windows.
A Varnish for Paper.
To Remove Grease Spots From Paper.
Paper for Taking Out Ink Stains.
Qualities of Good Paper.
Paste for Labels.
How to Produce Engravings or Types for Printing by Photography
How to Split a Sheet of Paper.
Aniline Ink Paper.
To Make Incombustible Writing and Printing Paper.
How to Take Printers’ Ink out of Silk.
To Remove Ruling Ink Stains From Fingers.
To Prevent Window Steaming.
To Render Paper Soft and Flexible.
To Remove Ink Spots.
To Remove Oil Marks From Paper.
To Remove Ink Stains From Mahogany.
Solid Pocket Glue.
To Test Glue.
Book-Binders’ Glue.
How to Make a Cement for Glass That Will Resist Acids.
Cement for Labels.
A Colorless Cement for Joining Sheets of Mica.
A Cement That Will Resist the Damp.
To Make Glue Waterproof.
Two Glue Recipes.
Postage Stamp Mucilage.
How to Keep Mucilage Fresh.
Mucilage in a Solid Form Which Will Dissolve in Water.
Mucilage for Pasteboard.
A Portable Ink.
Indelible India Ink.
To Make Copying Inks.
A Good Paster.
A Paste Which Will Not Spoil.
Electric Paper.
A Silver Solder.
An Alloy For Glass Or Metal.
An Improved Process of Photo-Engraving.
To Make New a Corroded Pen.
Enamel for Fine Cards.
Electrotyping Handwriting.
Black Paint for Blackboards.
To Clean Steel Pens.
Stationers’ Windows.
Photo-Lithographic Transfer Paper.
Different Kinds of Engraving.
How to Preserve Pencil Sketches.
Care of Wood Type.
Copper-Plating on Zinc.
To Transfer Engravings To Mother-of-Pearl.
Metal for Stereotyping.
How to Fix Pencil Marks so They Will Not Rub.
How to Obtain a Bright and Lasting Red Edge.
To Restore the Lustre of Morocco Leather.
To Restore the Original Whiteness Of Copper-Plate, Wood Engraving, Etc.
For Electrotyping on China.
Painting on Ebonized Wood.
How Gilding is Done.
Principal Colors of Gold for Grinding.
Writing on Metals.
How to Transfer a Photographic Print to Glass.
Stereotyping Woodcuts.
To Gild with Gold Leaf.
Gilding on Wood.
Gilding in Oil.
Gloss Printing.
To Bleach Sheepskin Parchment White.
Colors for Printing.
How to Dye Parchment Blue or Red.
To Make Paper Fire and Water-proof.
A New Blotting Paper.
Impermeable Paper.
To Mount Chromos for Framing.
A Varnish for Making Paper Transparent.
Carbon Paper.
Luminous Paper.
Sizes and Weights of Drawing Papers.
To Make Bronzed Paper.
To Make Drawing-Paper Transparent.
To Make Paper Water-Proof.
How to Size Poor Drawing Paper.
To Prevent Alterations in Writing.
To Prevent Gummed Paper From Cockling.
Copying Drawing in Color.
Washing Forms.
How to Prevent Off-setting.
Printing Envelopes.
To Prevent Set-off on Writing Papers Printed on One Side.
A Quick Dryer.
To Prevent Warping in Blocks and Wood.
How to Keep Rollers When Out of Use.
Preservative of Rollers When not in Use.
Oils for Lubricating Roller Molds.
Care of Rollers in the Summer Time.
To Keep Green Mould from Rollers.
Treatment of Old Rollers.
A Recipe for Printers’ Rollers.
Temperature of the Press Room.
When to Wash Rollers.
Improved Dryer for Printing Ink.
How to Bend a Rule.
To Clean Gilt Frames.
Cleaning New Machinery.
To Make Invisible Writing.
Red Printing Ink.
To Prevent Electrotype Blocks from Warping.
Black Printing Ink.
Sealing Wax.
For Making Dextrine.
Colors for Printing Inks.
Hints on “Casting Up.”
How to Ascertain the Quantity of Plain Type Required for Newspaper.
Care of Wood-cuts.
Remedy for Type that Sticks in Distributing.
Laying Type.
To Fix Bronze Colors on Glass.
To Destroy Book Worms.
Tinning Paper and Cloth.
Care of Books.
How to Prevent Mildew on Books.
A Cheap Lye.
A Good Dryer.
A Strong Lye.
Effect of Petroleum Oil on Wood Type.
A Bronze or Changeable Hue.
Gold Leaf Printing.
To Prevent Colored Inks from Becoming Hard.
To Keep Colored Inks from Skinning.
How to Remove Colored Inks.
A Varnish for Color Prints.
Repairing Battered Wood Type.
Inking Surfaces for Color Work.
How to Preserve Colored Inks.
How to Brighten Common Qualities of Colored Inks.
Printers’ Varnish.
To Prevent Off-setting.
A Hardening Gloss for Inks.
A Modeling Material.
Leaf Copying.
Dryer for Ruling Inks.
Size of Newspaper Sheets and Number of Columns.
Usual Sizes and Weights of News Printing Paper.
Usual Sizes and Weights of Book Papers.
Usual Sizes and Weights Colored Print Or Poster.
Usual Sizes of Flat and Ledger Papers.