- Print-on the white reserve.
- Dip in the blue vat; rinse and dry.
- Pad in the buff liquor, as formerly prescribed.
- Ground in upon the buff spots, the discharge, No. 2. presently to be described.
- Wash away the paste in chalky water.
- Wince through a boiling alkaline lye, to raise the buff iron colour.
IV. The Discharge style; first, of simple discharges.
1. Discharge for block printing.
Take 1 gallon of lemon or lime-juice, of spec. grav. 1·09, in which dissolve
1 pound of tartaric acid,
1 pound of oxalic acid, and thicken the solution with
4 pounds of pipe or china clay, and 2 pounds of pulverised gum; as soon as the gum is dissolved, the mixture must be put through a searce.
2. Another discharge is made of half the above acid strength.
3. A third with one half of the solid acids of the second.
4. Take 1 gallon of water, in which dissolve with heat
1 pound of cream of tartar adding, to facilitate the solution,
1 pound of warm sulphuric acid of spec. grav. 1·7674; after 24 hours mix
4 libs. of pipe or China clay, and three libs. of gum with the decanted clear liquor.
In some cases British gum is used alone, as a thickener.
5. Discharge for the cylinder machine.