• The first time Shakespeare’s 36 plays were published together in one book called “The First Folio”, it took two years to print the nearly 400-page book. It took so long that they proofread and corrected while the job was still in production.
• Letters that are not capitalized are called “lower case” because in early printing days, they were kept in the lower drawers (or cases) of the moveable-type cabinets.
• Regardless of a printer’s chosen printing surface, a different plate must be created for every individual color that is intended for print.
• There are two types of rotary letterpresses, sheet-fed and web-fed. Web-fed rotary presses are the most popular type of letter press printing.
Web-fed rotary letterpress presses are used primarily for printing newspapers. These presses are designed to print both sides of the web simultaneously. Typically, they can print up to four pages across the web; however, some of the new presses can print up to six pages across a 90-inch web. Rotary letterpress is also used for long-run commercial, packaging, book, and magazine printing.
• Typeface designer and gunsmith William Caslon created a type that was legible and distinct, which became popular for use in printing important documents. After his death, Caslon’s typeface was used in the printing of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, which was sent out to all the states. **
• In the 18th century, printer and typographer John Baskerville created a way to make paper whiter and smoother so that in printing, the ink showed up strong and crisp. He also was the pioneer for adding wide margins to the printed page, as well as spacing—or leading—between lines of text. **
(**Both of these typefaces are still widely used this very day!)
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