| Title: | Washing formes |
| Original Title: | Laver les formes |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 9 (1765), p. 313 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Citation (MLA): | "Washing formes." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.265>. Trans. of "Laver les formes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 9. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Washing formes." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.265 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Laver les formes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 9:313 (Paris, 1765). |
Washing the formes in Printing . The formes must be washed and this is done by carrying them to the tub [1], pouring on enough washing solution [2] to cover them and brushing them all over. They are then rinsed in clean water; this essential procedure must be carried out before formes are mounted on the press, when printing from them is finished and each evening before leaving work. See Washing solution, Baquet. [3]
1. le baquet
2. la lessive
3. See the Plates on Letterpress Printing, Plate 13 which shows the baquet and other apparatus for washing the formes and for soaking paper.