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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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k, punching, binding, etc.With this information set up, theground work was laid for the WesternElectric Company to take up againits plan for centralized buying of busi-ness papers in the performance of itsfunction as the service of supply forthe Bell System. Coincident with the surveys of eachcompanys business papers, the West-ern Electric Company had set up sup-ply arrangements for the standardpaper grades. These permitted it tofurnish the printers with papers ofcertain standards of quality at definiteprices. The printers were thus re-lieved of responsibility for both papercost and quality, which had been pri-mary obstacles in the earlier attemptsat establishing satisfactory centralsupply arrangements. As each survey was completed andspecifications were drawn up for allstationery forms, the Western ElectricCompany buyer stepped into the pic-ture to negotiate with the printers.One of the first questions presentedwas the handling of the compositionfor each form. Setting a form in type,
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SOME iTYPTCAL SYSTEM BUSINESS PAPERS These (and hundreds of others are printed on slocks and to specifications described in Ihej accompanying article 19 lO Standardizing Business Papers 149 or ruling it in wax in order to makean electrotype plate for printing theform, is a basic expense which appliesregardless of the number of copies tobe printed. With the hundreds offorms involved, the total cost for com-position represents a substantial sum.In order to protect this investment,it was decided to produce a masterplate, for a small additional cost,which was set aside as the telephonecompanys property. The printer waspermitted to prepare his printingplates from the master and to use itfor replacing plates that became wornor damaged. Telephone companyownership of the master plates alsofacilitated competition in arrangingcontracts, for otherwise a new printerwould have to reset all compositionin order to make printing plates forhis own presses—a handicap thatwould practically preclude a

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