Your outfit will, of course, depend largely on the size of press you have.

Outfit for a 3 x 5 Press

A couple of dollars will buy all the fixtures you need and these consist of (a) a font of type, (b) some leads, (c) a type case, (d) an assortment of furniture, and (e) a can of black ink.

A font of type means enough of a kind having the same face and body and the right amount of each letter to set up an ordinary job. You will find more about type under the next heading called Type and Typesetting. Leads are thin strips of type metal less than type-high which are used to separate the lines of type; and a type case is a shallow wooden tray divided into little compartments called boxes in which the letters of a font of type are kept apart.

Outfit for a 5 x 8 Press

The fixtures of a press of this size include all of those named above and (a) three fonts of type, (b) type cases for them; (c) a set of gage pins, and (d) a pair of tweezers, or a bodkin. The gage-pins are pinned into the paper backing on the platen to keep the card or sheet from slipping and to hold it in its proper place. The tweezers, or bobkin, which is a large needle, is used for picking out type from a form when you are correcting it.

Outfit for an 8 x 10 Press

This outfit should have all the fixtures of both of those described above and you will need not less than four fonts of type, while a composing stick, which is a little metal tray to hold the type in as you set it, is a necessity. These fixtures are shown in Fig. 64.

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A- Wood Furniture

B-A Lead

D- A Bought Guage Pin

C- A Common Pin Bent For A Guagepin

E- Regular Printers Tweezers With Coarse Serrated Flat Points

A Composing Stick

Abodkin

Fig. 64. An Outfit For A Model Press