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IMPORTANCE OF THE PAPER CUTTER 7
EVOLUTION OF THE PAPER-CUTTING MACHINE 8
DESCRIPTION OF TYPICAL MACHINES 11
THE KNIFE 16
GRINDING PAPER-CUTTER KNIVES 21
HONING PAPER-CUTTER KNIVES 22
THE CLAMPING PRESSURE 23
CUTTING STICKS 25
THE BACK GAGE 25
POWER BACK GAGE MOVEMENT 28
SPECIAL DEVICES 28
APPLICATION OF POWER 30
CARE OF THE MACHINE 32
OPERATING THE MACHINE 35
SAFETY OF THE KNIFE 37
HANDLING PAPER 38
TO CUT A PILE INTO STRIPS OF EQUAL WIDTH 43
TO CUT A PILE RECTANGULAR 44
TO SQUARE A PILE 45
TO CUT UNUSUAL SHAPES 46
TRIMMING BOOKS 46
PAPER CUTTINGS AND WASTE 50
DEPRECIATION OF A PAPER-CUTTING MACHINE 51
REVIEW QUESTIONS 53
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED 58
PAPER-CUTTING MACHINES
It increases the possible printing output largely because presses of large size can now print many duplicates of a single design on a single sheet, and many of these sheets piled can be separated at a single cut, whereas a fly or rotating cutter cuts but one sheet at a time.
The importance of the paper-cutting machine can hardly be overestimated. The correct position of the printed matter, the widths of head, tail, and fore edge may be destroyed by careless cutting. Friendly co?peration with every department is necessary to produce good work. No matter how fine the printing and color work is, if the margins are uneven and the folds mismatched, then the resulting air of slovenliness discredits the entire work. The final touch that gives the character to a piece of printed matter is the way it is trimmed.
Modern power automatic-clamp cutting machines, in spite of the high speed of their operation, are able to cut with absolute accuracy. Perhaps on no other machine will a little careful study return so large a profit in dollars and cents.
The practice of cutting paper began long before the making of the book of bound leaves,
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