COPY.
Almost all kinds of Prints or Engravings from Wood, Stone, Copper and Steel may be reproduced directly. The requisites are, clean, distinct black lines or stipple work, on white or only slightly tinted paper. All Photographs and Pencil Sketches must first be drawn in ink. We keep a corps of artists constantly employed, trained to do this work in the best manner. We can make drawings from photographs or tin-types taken in the usual way. They may be of any size, but should, of course, show the object distinctly.
Drawings for our use, unless intended to be redrawn, should be on a smooth, white surface, in perfectly black lines, and usually twice the dimensions each way of the desired plate.
Copy for fac-similes of handwriting should be in perfectly black ink, on smooth white paper, written with a full pen, and without use of blotting paper.