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Hot Stamping Type Sets
UPSTAIRS IMPRINTERS INC.
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Learning About Type
Do Not Mix Old and New Type
As shown above single types in the case or type box vary in height form letter to letter, according to the amount of wear which each letter has undergone. Using the most well made 'make ready' on letterpress One letter may have run thousands of impressions in a dozen different jobs on stock from the softest (perhaps napkins) to the hardest (perhaps acetate) and with varying squeeze, while the letter next to it in the line may be virtually new. In hot stamping the letter may have been exposed to excessive heat, pressure or dwell making it shorter. The next letter could be like new.
Too well the printer knows that these differences in type height-to-substrate requires laborious make -ready which may or may not solve the problem, causing a unsightly or unusable final product.
It is common sense to start with a form which is type high. So do not mix old and new type sets.
New Type Face and Ludlow Slugs
The Face of New Type and Ludlow Slugs is of necessity, newly cast when an new font is purchased or lines are cast. This results in accurate height-to-substrate.
Accuracy in the height of each letter in the line is accursed by the high degree of precision insisted upon in the manufacture and inspection of the type casting and line casting matrices.
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