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Title: Paper and Printing Recipes

A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes,

Concerning the

Every-Day Business of Stationers,

Printers, Binders, and

the Kindred Trades

Author: J Sawtelle Ford

Release Date: May 17, 2010 [EBook #32400] Language: English

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Paper and Printing

RECIPES

A Handy Volume of Practical pes, Concerning the Every-DayBusiness of Stationers, Print-ers, Binders, and the

Entered according to the Act of Congress,

inthe year 1883, by

J SAWTELLE FORD,

In the Office of the Librarian at

Washington

GLIMPSE OF CONTENTS.

This Volume has nearly

Two Hundred valuableRecipes for Stationers,Printers, Bookbinders,etc These Recipes arethoroughly practical, andsuch as come up in everyday’s work They havebeen gathered from manysources, and areendorsed by the bestworkmen of the UnitedStates and Europe

INDEX TO RECIPES.

WRITING INKS.

Removing Writing Ink from Paper 1

A Dark Red Indelible Ink 4

An Ink which cannot be Erased 6Copying Ink to be used without Press

To keep Colored Inks from Skinning 81

To Preserve Colored Inks 82How to Brighten Common Qualities

Improved Dryer for Printing Ink 66

To take Printer’s Ink out of Silk 17

Red Printing Ink 68

Colors for Printing Ink 71Principal Colors of Gold for

MARKING INKS, ETC.

Black Ink for Stencils 6

Blue Marking Ink for White Goods 10

REMOVAL OF INK STAINS, ETC.

To Remove Writing Ink from Paper 1

To Remove Aniline Ink from the

Hands 8

To take Ink Stains from the Hands 9

To Remove Grease Spots from Paper 13How to Remove Colored Inks 81Paper for taking out Ink Stains 14

To Remove Ruling Ink Stains from

To Remove Oil Marks from Paper 20

To Remove Ink Stains from

GLUES, PASTES, MUCILAGE, ETC.

Postage Stamp Mucilage 26

To keep Mucilage Fresh 26

Mucilage for Pasteboard 27

A Cement that will Resist the Damp 24

To make Glue Water-proof 24

A Paste which will not Spoil 29

A Silver Solder 30

An Article for Labeling Bottles 8

PRINTERS’ VARNISHES.

A Varnish for Color Prints 82

A Transparent Paper Varnish 53

COLOR AND GOLD LEAF

PRINTING.

To Fix Bronze Colors on Glass 77

A Bronze or Changeable Hue 80

Inking Surfaces for Color Work 82

Colors for Holding Bronze 2

ELECTROTYPING.

To Prevent Electrotype Blocks from

Electrotyping on China 42Electrotyping Handwriting 35

WOOD CUTS AND ENGRAVING.

To Produce Engraving or Types for

Printing by Photography 15Different kinds of Engraving 36

To Restore the Original Whiteness ofCopper plate, Wood Engravings, etc 42

To Transfer Engraving to Mother of

Blue-Black Writing Paper 10

Tinning Paper and Cloth 77Gummed Paper from Cockling 57Qualities of Good Paper 14

To make Paper Fine and Water-proof 52

To Bleach Sheepskin Parchment

Transparent Drawing Paper 56

To Split a Sheet of Paper 15Photo-Lithographic Transfer Paper 32

To Make a Corroded Pen 31

To Restore the Lustre of Morocco

Non-erasible Pencil Marks 41Copy Drawing in Color 57Black Paint for Blackboards 33

To Preserve Pencil Sketches 37

Treatment of India Ink Drawings 9

Cleaning New Machinery 67

Painting on Ebonized Wood 43

To Clean a Chamois Skin 12Dryer for Ruling Inks 85Usual Sizes and Weights of News

Usual Sizes of Flat and Ledger

Papers

87Size of Newspaper Sheets and

STATIONERS’ WINDOWS.

Hints on Dressing the Store Windows 12

To Prevent Window Steaming 18

GILDING.

For Cheaply Gilding Bronze, etc 11Electro-Gilding in Colors 19

Gilding with Gold Leaf 46

Copper Plating on Zinc 38

An Alloy for Glass or Metal 30

To Ascertain the Quantity of Plain

Type Required for Newspapers 75Repairing Battered Wood Type 82

PRINTERS’ ROLLERS.

Keeping Rollers when not in Use 62Preservative of Rollers when not in

Rollers in Summer Time 63

To Keep Green Mould from Rollers 63Treatment of Old Rollers 64

A Recipe for Printer’s Rollers 64

Oils for Lubricating Roller Moulds 62

PRINTING METHODS.

Colors for Printing 51

Paper and Printing

in water before restoring it to the volume

To Render Pencil Notes Indelible.

Pencil notes found in a book, or placedthere as annotations, may be renderedindelible by washing them with a softsponge dipped in warm vellum size ormilk.

To Remove Grease Spots from Paper.

Grease may be removed from paper in thefollowing manner: Warm gradually theparts containing the grease, and extract asmuch as possible of it by applyingblotting-paper Apply to the warm paperwith a soft, clean brush, some clearessential oil of turpentine that has beenboiled, and then complete the operation byrubbing over a little rectified spirits of

How to Detect Arsenic in Paper.

A simple method for detecting arsenic inpaper, cards, etc., is described asfollows:—Immerse the suspected paper instrong ammonia on a white plate orsaucer; if the ammonia becomes blue, thepresence of salt of copper is proved; thendrop a crystal of nitrate of silver into theblue liquid, and, if any arsenic be present,the crystal will become coated withyellow arseniate of silver, which willdisappear on stirring

An Ink Restorer.

The process consists in moistening thepaper with water and then passing overthe lines in writing a brush which has beenwet in a solution of sulphide of ammonia.The writing will immediately appear quitedark in color, and this color, in the case ofparchment, it will preserve

Colors for Holding Bronze.

Red and green inks are good colors forholding bronze, when you are not workingwith size or varnish

Stencil Ink.

A good and cheap stencil ink in cakes issaid to be obtained by mixing lampblackwith fine clay, a little gum arabic ordextrine, and enough water to bring thewhole to a satisfactory consistence

Copying Ink to be Used Without Press

should not be excessively fine, nor thestrokes uneven or heavy To prevent

“setting off,” the leaves after copyingshould be removed by blotting-paper Thecopies and the originals are neater thanwhere water is used

White Ink.

There is really no such article as “whiteink.” A true ink is a solution of somesubstance or combination of substances inliquid Colored liquids, however, may beprepared with various substances notsoluble in the liquids available for writingfluids A “white ink” may be made byrubbing the finest zinc white, or white

lead, with a dilute solution of gum arabic.

It must be stirred up whenever the pen orbrush is dipped into it

Purple Hektograph Ink.

To make the purple hektograph ink:—Dissolve 1 part of methyl-violet in 8 parts

of water, and add 1 part of glycerine.Gently warm the whole for about an hour,then allow to cool and add ¼ part alcohol

It is said, on good authority, that thealcohol may be advantageously omitted,and that the following proportions willgive even better results than the above,viz: Methyl-violet, 1 part; water, 7 parts;glycerine, 2 parts This formula, it is said,

produces an ink which is less liable tosink into the paper.

A Dark Red Indelible Ink.

An indelible red ink for marking linen may

be made from the following formula:

Prepare three separate solutions:

minutes with 9½ ozs of alum Draw off,and allow the mixture to settle for two orthree days Again draw off the liquor, andwash the sediment with clear, cold, softwater, and then dry the sediment.

Violet Ink.

To make violet ink:—Put 8 ozs logwoodinto 3 pints of water, and boil until halfthe water has gone off in steam The restwill be good ink, if strained, andsupplemented by 1½ ozs gum, and 2½ozs alum Chloride of tin may be usedinstead of alum Another plan is to mix, inhot water, 1 oz cudbear (a dye obtainedfrom lichen fermented in urine) and 1½

ozs pearlash; let it stand 12 hours; strain;add 3 ozs gum and 1 oz spirit.

Indelible Ink.

A cheap indelible ink can be made by thefollowing recipe:—Dissolve in boilingwater 20 parts of potassa, 10 parts of fine-cut leather chips, and 5 parts of flowers ofsulphur are added, and the whole heated

in an iron kettle until it is evaporated todryness Then the heat is continued untilthe mass becomes soft, care being takenthat it does not ignite The pot is nowremoved from the fire, allowed to cool,water is added, the solution strained andpreserved in bottles This ink will flow

readily from the pen.

How to Remove Ink-stains from the

Hands.

Ripe tomatoes will remove ink or otherstains from the hands

Treatment of India Ink Drawings.

An easy method for rendering drawings inIndian ink insensible to water, and thuspreventing the ink from running when thedrawing has to be colored and the linesare very thick:—To the water in which the

ink has to be rubbed, is added a weaksolution of bichromate of potash of about

2 per cent The animal gum contained inthe Indian ink combines with thebichrome, and becomes insoluble underthe influence of light

Black Ink.

To make a black ink for fountain pens, add

1 part of nigrosein to 50 parts of hotwater; agitate well at intervals; let it cool,and after twelve hours filter through a finelinen cloth, and add a few drops ofcarbolic acid to each pint This may bediluted with three times its volume ofwater, and still form a good ink for

ordinary pens.

Ink for Rubber Stamps.

Aniline (red violet), 16 parts; boilingdistilled water, 80 parts; glycerine, 7parts; molasses, 3 parts

Cardinal Ink.

Improved cardinal ink for draughtsmen ismade as follows:—Triturate 1 gram ofpure carmine with 15 grams of acetateammonia solution and an equal quantity ofdistilled water, in a porcelain mortar, and

allow the whole to stand for some time Inthis way a portion of the alumina which iscombined with the carmine dye is taken up

by the acetate acid of the ammonia saltand separates as precipitate, while thepure pigment of the cochineal remainsdissolved in the half saturated ammonia It

is now filtered and a few drops of purewhite sugar syrup added to thicken it Inthis way an excellent red drawing ink isobtained, which holds its color a longtime A solution of gum arabic cannot beemployed to thicken this ink, as it stillcontains some acetic acid, which wouldcoagulate the bassorine, one of the naturalconstituents of gum arabic

An Article for Labeling Bottles.

A very useful article for labeling bottlescontaining substances which woulddestroy ordinary labels consists of amixture of ammonium fluoride, bariumsulphate and sulphuric acid, theproportions for its manufacture being:barium sulphate, 3 parts; ammoniumfluoride, 1 part; and sulphuric acid enough

to decompose the fluoride and make amixture of semi-fluid consistency Thismixture, when brought in contact with aglass surface with a common pen, at onceetches a rough surface on the parts itcomes in contact with The philosophy ofthe action is the decomposition of theammonium fluoride by the acid, whichattacks the glass; the barium sulphate is

inert, and is simply used to prevent thespreading of the markings The mixturemust be kept in bottles coated on theinside with paraffine or wax.

How to Remove Aniline Ink from the

Hands.

Aniline inks are now in common use,especially in connection with the variousgelatine tablets for multiplying copies ofwritten matter Upon the hands it makesannoying stains, difficult of removal bywater or acids They may be easilywashed out by using a mixture of alcohol

3 parts, and glycerine 1 part

An Ink which Cannot be Erased.

An ink which cannot be erased from paper

or parchment by any known chemicalsolvent, and will retain its original colorindefinitely, and last as long as thematerial on which it is written, is made asfollows:—Make a solution of shellac inborax, to which add sufficient lampblack

to give the requisite depth of color

To Make Black Ink.

Lactate of iron, 15 grains; powdered gumarabic, 75 grains; powdered sugar, half a

drachm; gallic acid, 9 grains; hot water, 3ounces (Lactate of iron is a novelty inink-making, and the above formula maypossibly suit those who have a taste forwriting with mucilaginous matters instead

of limpid solutions.)

Black Ink for Stencils.

The following is commended for thepreparation of a black ink or paste for usewith stencils:—Boneblack, 1 lb.;molasses, 8 ozs.; sulphuric acid, 4 ozs.;dextrine, 2 ozs.; water sufficient Mix theacid with about two ounces of water, andadd it to the other ingredients, previouslymixed together When the effervescence

has subsided, enough water is to be added

to form a paste of convenient consistence

at first, but by exposure to the sun or thefire it will become quite black and verydurable

Blue Marking Ink for White Goods.

Crystallized nitrate of silver, dram 1Water of ammonia, drams 3Crystallized carbonate of soda, dram 1Powdered gum arabic, drams 1½Sulphate of copper, grains 30Distilled water, drams 4Dissolve the silver salt in the ammonia;dissolve the carbonate of soda, gumarabic, and sulphate of copper in thedistilled water, and mix the two solutionstogether

Blue-Black Writing Paper.

Take of Aleppo galls, bruised, 9 ozs.;bruised cloves, 2 drachms; cold water, 80ozs.; sulphate of iron, 3 ozs.; sulphuricacid, 70 minims; indigo-paste, 4 drachms.Place the galls and the cloves in a gallonbottle, pour upon them the water, and letthem macerate, with frequent agitation, for

a fortnight Press, and filter through paperinto another gallon bottle Next, put in thesulphate of iron, dissolve it, add the acid,and shake the whole briskly Lastly, addthe indigo-paste, mix well, and filter againthrough paper Keep the ink in well-corked bottles

Coloring Metals.

Metals may be rapidly colored bycovering their surfaces with a thin layer ofsulphuric acid According to the thickness

of the layer and the durability of its action,there may be obtained tints of gold,copper, carmine, chestnut-brown, clearand aniline blue and reddish-white Thesetints are all brilliant, and if care be taken

to scour the metallic objects beforetreating them with the acid, the color willsuffer nothing from the polishing

For Cheaply Gilding Bronzes, Etc.

A mixture for cheaply gilding bronzes,gas-fittings, etc.:—Two and one-halfpounds cyanide of potash, five ounces