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An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

The small size of type used in England printing.

sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

z. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

orner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

esses by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

romate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing.

To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Knight.