| Title: | Imposition |
| Original Title: | Imposition |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 8 (1765), p. 600 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Letterpress printing
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Imposition." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.228>. Trans. of "Imposition," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 8. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Imposition." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.228 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Imposition," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 8:600 (Paris, 1765). |
Imposition, is one of the duties of the compositor who, once he has set the number of pages he needs to impose, arranges them on the imposing stone, according to printing practice which is set out in detail in the article on the work of Printing (See that article.) He then examines the type to see that the pages are properly arranged then puts the chase in place, adds its furniture, unties [1] the pages and locks them up in the chase, pushes [any high letters down] with the awl, fits the quoins and tightens them by hand, dresses the type and locks-up the forme. The pages must be arranged so that, when both sides of the sheet are printed, the second page is on the reverse side of the first, the fourth on the back of the third and so on. See all the words in italics, for each of which there is an article. See also the Plates on Letterpress Printing.
Notes
1. The type-block for each page has been bound with string to hold the type together before it is transferred to the imposing-stone.