The American Printer: A Manual of Typography / Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

by Thomas MacKellar

IMPROVED STANDING PRESS.

COUNTING OUT AND PUTTING AWAY SHEETS.

When the sheets are taken out, the warehouseman knocks them up, and, after counting them into quires, ties them up in wrappers, marking the name of the work and signature on each bundle. Two or three sheets of each signature should be laid aside, in case the author, bookseller, or employer should want a copy of the work or a specimen of as many sheets as are finished.

STANDARD SIZES OF MACHINE-MADE PAPER.

(Furnished by A. G. Elliot & Co., Philadelphia.)

PRINTING PAPER.

Medium	inches,	19	×	24
Royal		20	×	25
Super Royal		21	×	27
Imperial		22	×	32
Royal and Half,		25	×	30
Double Medium		24	×	38
Imperial and Half		32	×	33
Double Super Royal		27	×	42
Double Imperial,		32	×	44.

Other sizes kept on hand, but without technical names, are as follows:—22 × 28; 24 × 36; 25 × 39; 26 × 40; 28 × 42.

WRITING PAPER.