IMPOSING TABLES.
The new-style imposing tables are made from both steel and wood. Both the steel and wood imposing tables have planed steel tops. These tables come in various sizes, and they are made in different styles so far as the arrangement of drawers, galley-slides, letter boards, chase racks, and lock-up furniture is concerned. The following illustrations of a No. 4040 Hamilton Imposing table, made of hard-wood with a steel top, shows the back and front views of the table. Note the arrangement of the printers’ labor-saving wood furniture, letter-boards, galley shelves, chase rack and drawers:
No. 4040 Imposing Table (front view)
The time-saving advantages of an imposing table of this design should be apparent to any intelligent person. With a table equipped like this one, with labor-saving furniture, letter-boards, etc., the imposition man can lock-up form after form without finding it necessary to walk away from the table for lock-up material. On the letter-boards are kept standing “live” forms ready for repeat orders. Hundreds of small, live jobs are also kept standing on the galleys. As the forms are locked up for the presses the chases are placed in the chase rack, and from there the pressman takes them.
No. 4040 Imposing Table (reverse side view)
TYPE EQUIPMENT
It would be impossible to specify type equipment which would be 100 per cent suitable for the printing department of a paper box plant, for the reason that the requirements of every printing department are different. It is safe, however, to install popular type faces like Lining Gothic, Caslon Old Style, Bodoni Bold, Caslon Bold, Cheltenham Bold, Goudy Bold, etc. Much of the label and carton work handled in the box-maker’s printing office is composed of heavy-face type, like Cheltenham Bold for example, and that is why the bold faces mentioned have been suggested. Both light-face and bold-face Gothic are always useful.