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Title: The printing trades
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Shaw, Frank L. (Frank Leslie), b. 1882 Cleveland Foundation. Survey Committee. Cleveland education survey
Subjects: Printing industry Book industries and trade Vocational education
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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geand complicated machine, made up of more than50,000 separate parts, must be operated effi-ciently at high speed and with clock-like regu-larity. In case of a breakdown he has to knowexactly what to do, and how to do it in theshortest possible time. He must possess a thor-ough knowledge of the mechanical principles in-volved in the operation of the press, and use thestrictest care in its daily overhauling. Newspaper pressmen are provided with threeclasses of assistants—brakemen, oilers, and fly-boys. These assistants mount the forms uponthe cylinders, introduce the paper, and attendto such other necessary details as making ready,oiling, and keeping the press clean. Plate PrintersPlate printers operate a type of press usedmainly to print such work as personal cards,wedding announcements, and invitations. Thiskind of printing is usually done on special presses,from steel or copper plates on which the letter-ing and designs have been engraved. It is limitedto a few specialty shops. 40
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Platen and Cylinder PressfeedersThe platen pressfeeder feeds the paper and re-moves the printed sheets from the press. Thecylinder pressfeeder has only to feed the paper,as the cylinder automatically carries the sheetsthrough the press and piles them neatly afterprinting. The work requires little beyond skillin handling sheets of paper rapidly and can belearned in a few months. In the large shops, where long runs are com-mon, automatic mechanical pressfeeders are usedextensively. It seems probable that they willeventually displace many of the hand workersnow employed. Other OccupationsPressroom foremen are usually pressmen whooperate a press in addition to directing the workof others. Only in the largest shops do the fore-men devote all their time to supervision. Floor-men are assistant pressmen. Beginners, calledflyboys, are employed on odd jobs about thepressroom until they learn enough to take a handat pressfeeding. In the large shops there are usually one or twocutters who operate

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