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Excerpt from Specimen Book and Catalog: A Price List of Printers' Supplies; September, 1907 Labor-saving The introduction of our new system of Standard Line Unit Set Type, with its many labor-saving features, is of vast importance to all printers, because by its use they can do Superior work at a great saving of time and labor, as well as saving a large amount of material, and consequently its first cost. Type and Wages In all offices the amount invested in type is small when compared with the yearly expenditure for wages in the composing-room. It therefore follows that type which accomplishes the saving of, say, only 10 per cent. In labor will cost the proprietor nothing, as it will pay for itself in a year, and thereafter yield a large profit on the investment. The printers who have adopted our system will testify that the saving in composition is large; in some cases being fully 50 per cent. Not only is this true of the composing-room, but it also applies in no small degree to the press-room. Standard Line Unit Set Type, being absolutely true and of uniform hight, requires much less patching up, and effects a consequent saving of much time in make-ready. Point Bodies Not a single objection can be urged against this system. Be ing cast on point bodies, our type will work to advantage with that of other foundries. It is unnecessary for an office to be entirely equipped with our material to derive benefit from Standard Line Type. However, the larger the amount of our type, the greater the saving. We are convinced that every practical printer who once gives it a trial will find that it will pay him to replace his old type with stand ard line, as the saving of labor in his composition alone, to say nothing of the time gained in make-ready, will pay for it in a very short time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.