| Title: | Justifier |
| Original Title: | Justifieur |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 9 (1765), p. 102 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Typemaking
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.946 |
| Citation (MLA): | "Justifier." 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.did2222.0003.946>. Trans. of "Justifieur," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 9. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Justifier." 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.did2222.0003.946 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Justifieur," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 9:102 (Paris, 1765). |
The Justifier is the main part of the cutter with which one cuts and adjusts pieces of printing type. This justifier is composed of two main parts, [each] twenty-two inches long. One piece has an iron tenon at each end which fits into a recess in the other piece designed to receive it and so hold the pieces together. Between the pieces are put between two and three hundred letters — more or less letters according to their size – arranged next to each other. Then the letters are transferred to the cutter and squeezed firmly together by a screw and smoothed with a plane of suitable size to remove the casting sprue from the bodies of the letters. See Cutter, Plane and our Plates on typefounding [Plate IV (inscribed Pl. III) and Plate V (inscribed 1 st set of Plate III)].