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TYPES OF AMERICAN FOUNDERS. 99 feeble impression as he can and he produces presswork which few good hand-pressmen of the last generation would have dared to offer their employers. Great changes in the appearance of types are also made by changed also by different different methods of presswork. Rough or smooth paper, papers and wet or dry paper, hard or elastic impression will produce from the same types changes in the appearance of printing that seem incredible to those who are not familiar with practical presswork. An elastic or "soaking" impression from new types on wet, coarse or laid paper will have the thickness and bluntness of worn-out letter; on hard, smooth paper, impressed against hard surface, the same types can be made to show hair lines almost as delicate as those of a copper-plate. This delicate method of printing, with a Delicate faces j j v j-i- j.i .of type now corresponding delicacy in the cut ot the types, is now in m fashion, favor, and it is seldom that a printer can find a publisher who will help him in any attempt to change the fashion. 1 Daily newspapers, the largest consumers of types in this country, have necessarily received from the type-founders more attention than books. Peculiar styles have been de- signed for newspapers that are admirably fitted to resist the wear of stereotyping by the papier-mache process, as well 1 Not long ago Mr. Henry O. Hough- of an old Venetian book. The founder ton, of the "Riverside Press," solicited declined, saying that the taste of the a foreign type-founder to make for him time was for light-faced types, and a series of firm-faced types, flat enough that he would cast no other. Mr. to take generous color, and firm enough Houghton has since had the types to withstand strong impression, for made in Boston. Their popularity which he furnished as models the types shows the soundness of his judgment.