ABSTRACT
The next matter of importance towards obtaining good press work, is the substance which is fixed in the tympans to intervene between the type and the platen, in order, when the power is applied, to cause an impression into the substance of the paper. Whatever is used for this purpose, it is become technically correct to denominate the blankets. Industrious and careful pressmen must stand high in the estimation of every master printer, yet it is to be lamented that so few endeavor to merit so desirable an appellation, and one so easily acquired by a little care and attention. Drawing and plate papers, being occasionally used by the letter-press printer, it is proper to observe that a different process must be used in the wetting. These papers are usually sent in from the Stationers quite flat; that is not folded into quires or half quires
