INDEX
Reading edition
Adjusting pressure in machine, 38
Adjusting stones in machine, 37
Air drying—tin printing, 78, 79
Alum, 27
Aluminium plates, 57
Aluminium plates—
Alterations, 62
Direct photo, 58, 85, 100
Etching, 61
Machining, 65
Printing bed, 65
Rolling up, 60
Sensitising, 99
Transferring, 59
Aluminium rotary machine, 65, 66
American printers, 53
Asphalt solution, 100
Bavarian limestone, 1, 2
Blocking out, 54, 55
Blue tinge, 70, 77
Boxwood scraper, 20
Brake cylinder, 38
Bronze printing, 49
Cam motion, 21
Canada balsam, 54
Castor oil, 28
Cause and effect, 2
Ceramic decoration, 55
Chalk drawings, 25, 26
Chemical affinity, 2
Clean stones, 3
Cohesion in printing ink, 54
Colour and design, 48
Changes, 70
Mixing, 30
Printing, 47
Registration, 48
Sequence, 48, 50, 76
Super-position, 48, 81
Transparencies, 55
Colours, standard, 55
Copperplate press, 17
Printing, 17-19
Stove, 18
Copy, photo-litho, 89
Copying table, 96
Crayon or chalk drawing, 8
Crayon work, 89, 90
Cylinder press, 21
Damping rollers, 40
Design, 24
Design, inverted, 68
Design, suitable, 80
Development, photo print, 99
Direct impression, A, 72
Discoloration, 70
Distortion, 49, 68, 75
Dryers, 71
Drying colours, 50, 71
Drying metal plates, 77, 78
Drying racks, 78, 79
Duplication of design, 30, 31
Effect of pinks and greys, 49
Effects in tin-plate printing, 81
Elastic bedding, 22, 23
Electricity, 46
Elements of lithography, 2
Embossed lines, 89
Plates, 82
Embossing dies, 82, 83
Enamelled paper, 51
Etching, 25, 26
Evolution of tin-plate printing, 67
Exposure, 99
Fine etching, 95
French chalk, 71, 76
Skins, 28
Friction glazed paper, 51
Glass muller, 6
Gold lacquer, 77, 81
Gold printing, 49
Grain, natural, 87
Graining stones, 5, 6
Grinding stones, 4-6
Gripper, 42
Gripper margins, 31
Grit, 43
Half-tone, photo-litho, 86
Halligan machine, 34-36
Hand labour and machine, 3
Lever, 21
Roller, 28
High lights, 89
Homogeneity of stones, 2
Illumination of copy, 99
Impression, 27
Impression, size of, 75
Impression, solid, 46
Inking rollers, 39
Inks, printing, 52-56
Tin-plate printing, 69-71
Transfer, 8-11
Inverted design, 68
Key formes, 27, 41
Lacquer, peculiar feature of, 83
Lacquer, tin-plate, 77
Lamp-black, 28
Leather dressing, 22
Level surfaces, 3
Levelling stones, 37
Line, photo-litho, 85
Linoleum, 23
Linseed oil, 52, 53
Litho press for copperplate, 19
Litho press, mechanical principles, 20, 21
Litho press, pressure, 20
Litho varnish, 52, 53
Magnesia, 71
Mechanical affinity, 2
Metal plates, 57
Method, 45
Modification of colour sequence, 48
Motor driving, 46
Nap roller, 28
Natural grain, 87
Negative, 88
Offsets, 27, 28
Oriental blue tinge, 70, 77
Original stones, 30
Outline forme, 48
Packing cylinder, 21
Paper, enamelled, 51
Well seasoned, 49-51
Pen and ink sketches, 89
Pen and scraper effects, 90
Photo litho—
Copy, 89
Development, 99, 100
Direct, 85
Half-tone, 86
Inception of, 84
Line, 85
Printing, 99
Transfer, 85
Transfer paper, 99
Plumbago, 22
Porosity of stones, 2
Preparation of stones, 2-7
Preparing designs, 24, 25
Pressure alterations, 43
Excessive, 37
Litho press, 20
Peculiarities, 75, 76
Printing inks, 52
Cohesion of, 54
Printing medium, 1
Proving, 29, 30
Recipes, transfer inks, 9-11
Transfer papers, 13-15
Reciprocal movement, 72
Reducing medium, 53, 54
Register lines, 29, 30
Registration, 29, 41
Registration of colour, 48
Remedy, A, 71
Re-transferring, 31
Rotary machine, printing, 65, 66
Rubber blanket, 72-75
Resilience of, 76
Scraper, 20-22
Scraper boards, 89, 90
Scratches, 5
Screen effect, 86
Screen photo, 86
Senefelder, 2
Sensitising solution, 99
Sequence of colour, 48
Set off, 71
Shading mediums, 90
Shadow, 89
Sheen of metal plate, 70
Side lay, 42
Silver print, 89
Slogger, 38
Sludge, 5
Solid oil, 53
Speed, 36, 37, 46
Speed cones, 46
Standard colours, 55
Stone-planing machine, 3, 4
Stone-polishing machine, 4, 5
Stoving tin-plates, 78
Transferred prints, 69
Substitutes for stone, 57
Suggestion, A, 49
Super-position of colours, 48
Tooth of grained stones, 7
Of metal plates, 58
Transfer inks—
Active principle of, 8, 9
Copperplate, 10, 11
Extra powerful, 11
Plate, 9
Stone to stone, 10
Writing, 9, 10
Transfer paper—
Autographic, 14
Copperplate, 14, 15
Diaphanic, 16
Grained, 15, 16
Photo-litho, 16, 99
Specific value of, 12
Stone to stone, 13
Transparent, 13, 14
Varnished, 13
Transfer printing, 55
Transferring, 32, 33, 100
Transparencies, 55
Trimming paper, 43
Tympan, 21, 22
V-shaped edge, 22
Varnish, litho, 52, 53
Vaseline, 54
Venetian red, 28
Water of Ayr stone, 25
White printing, 70, 76, 77
Zinc plates, 57
Zinc plates—
Alterations, 62
De-polishing, 58
Etching, 61
Graining, 58
Machining, 65
Photo, direct, 58, 85, 99
Printing bed, 65
Rolling up, 60
Sensitising, 99
Transferring to, 59
Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh
Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious punctuation errors were repaired.
Both “overestimate” and “over-estimated” appear in the original text.
The following additional corrections were made to the text. The first passage is the original passage, the second the corrected one.
Page 46: of items are discussed therein which, though simple, are of items are discussed herein which, though simple, are
Page 48: the building up of a green by the superposition of blues, of the building up of a green by the super-position of blues, of
Page 70: printing. At same time, it must be remembered that printing. At the same time, it must be remembered that
Page 102: Bavarian limestone, 12 Bavarian limestone, 1, 2
Page 102: Embossing discs, 82, 83 Embossing dies, 82, 83
Page 103: Paper, enamelled, 61 Paper, enamelled, 51
Page 104: Extra powerful, 4 Extra powerful, 11
Page 104: Depolishing, 58 De-polishing, 58