CHANGE OF SIZE.
In reproducing wood-cut prints, the size can often be considerably reduced; but if the reduction is great, the lines become so fine and close together that they will not print well. Coarse wood-cuts, such as are generally used in Newspapers, may often be reduced to half their linear dimensions, but fine wood-cuts will admit of but little reduction.
Most steel plate prints and lithographs will not admit of any reduction, and even when reproduced, the same size in relief, require considerable care in printing.
All kinds of prints generally look bad when much enlarged, as the lines become very coarse and ragged on the edges; though we have sometimes made very effective cuts for posters and hand-bills in this way.
In all cases of enlargement and reduction the relative proportions remain the same.
It must not be forgotten, however, that by redrawing, prints of any kind can be enlarged or reduced to any desired size.