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Excerpt from The Munson Method of Power Type-Composition: A Description of the Method and Its Machines, and of the Manner in Which the Machines Are Operated in Practice; Also a Statement of the Kinds of Type-Composition That the Method Can Do, With Carefully Prepared Estimates of the Cost of Its Work
The Munson Method of Power Type Composition has recently been greatly simplified and improved by the inventor, removing from it all of the features that had been criticised or excepted to by any of the practical printers who had examined it; so that he feels assured that, in its present shape, it will prove to be A Perfect Solution of the problem of economical machine composition which is now receiving so much notice, both from those who are in the business of printing, and from the public at large.
The special attention of printers is, therefore, again respectfully asked by Mr. Munson to his typographic inventions, as they now stand, and as they are here briefly described.
Other Type-Setting Or Composing Machines.
All type-setting or composing machines, of whatever character or description, that have hitherto been made and offered to the public, have been limited in their capacity for work by the ability of the operator. However good a machine may have been; whatever its mechanical capacity for speed might be; whether it could do six, eight, ten or even twelve thousand ems an hour; in actual practice it always fell far below that speed, for the reason that the operator could not make it do more work than a comparatively small part of its ultimate capacity, the amount varying according to his skill or diligence or both.
The average rate at which skilled operators, working from ordinary "copy," can manipulate a keyboard composing-machine of any kind, for any length of time, is not greater than 4,000 ems an hour. Occasionally an exceptionally expert operator may be found who will exceed that amount.
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