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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4

To Varnish Unsized Paper.—

To Varnish Unsized Paper.—

The following recipe from the American Lithographer and Printer (in answer to a correspondent) may be of value to some of our readers:— « A mixture of one hundred parts of thin litho. varnish and one part of water-glass (silicate basic potassa) printed on top of the paper (it is not unsized bat slightly sized) will enable you not only to varnish the paper, but it will also result in a saving of fifty per cent, of gloss varnish, and will at the same time produce a superior gloss: as a matter of course, all printing must be finished before all this can be done.