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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

Trade Exchanges

page 43

Trade Exchanges.

When we saw the shadowy portrait of Beecher in the American Art Printer, produced simply by the impression of a « make-ready » on an even tint, we recognized a process with fine artistic possibliities. The effect is much like that of a picture produced solely with the ruling-machine; but with a softness of gradation unattainable by that process. In the January issue there is a really artistic portrait, as well as a vignette butterfly produced in this way. Art-printers who have ruled tint-blocks in stock would do well to experiment with this method.

The St. Louis Printers' Register is a lively number as usual. The moral of most of its articles and paragraphs is that there is no type to equal that of the Central Foundry. It has a short and comprehensive way of dealing with foreign exchanges. It says: « We receive a raft of printers' journals, of a great variety of languages, from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, and Holland; but by whom they are published, or why they are published, is a matter which will remain for ever a mystery. »

The Printers' Register for January contains its usual valuable summary for the year, and its sheet almanac for 1891.

The New York Union Printer has come down in size from demy folio to a page the size of Typo, except that it is half-an-inch narrower, leaving a scanty margin. The change is a great improvement, the paper being much more convenient to handle and to file.

The Printing Times and Lithographer is endeavoring to form a joint-stock company under the name of « The Lithographer, Limited, » to take over and push the only English organ of the lithographic craft. The proposed capital is £5000, in £1 shares, and it is expected that not more than 5/- per share will be required to be paid up. Some of the best members of the profession are on committee. The Printing Times has always been well-written and admirably conducted, and has improved under its present management; but the support accorded has not been what it should have been. We hope the company will be a success.