are to be put. Bulk, handling, and "look-through," strength, tear (straight and across), length of fibre. British and foreign makes and how to detect. The right and wrong sides.
Defects in Paper.—Cockling, and creasing, stretching, lifting, fluffing, the mill edge, spots, air-bubbles, foreign substances, electricity in paper.
Technical terms used by papermakers and merchants. Insides, outsides, retree, job, mill job, overmake, etc.
Sizes and Weights of Paper.—Standard sizes of the various classes. Standard weights. Equivalent weights of standard and odd sizes, and of reams consisting of 480, 504, or 516 sheets. Reams to the reel.
Watermarks and mill numbers.
Stocking of Paper.—What classes to select for stocking. Racks, for stock. The care of stock, samples, oddments, and useful offcuts. Tying up and marking reams. The effect of light, temperature, chemical fumes, damp and dust on the various classes of paper. Stock-keeping systems and books.
Boards.—Bristol, paste, pulp, wood-pulp, art and tinted, millboards and strawboards. Standard sizes; subdivisions and standard thicknesses. Boards to the cwt.
Market prices and terms for stock papers and makings.
LITHOGRAPHY
Grade I
Machine-made uncoated printing papers: their nature and qualities; dimensions of the more common printing papers, tinted and white, wove and laid, sized and unsized.
Grade II
Hand- and machine-made; tinted; enamels (single and duplex coated); plain and glazed cards, their nature, qualities, and sizes. Paper creasing and its remedies.
Final
Tests for printing properties; papers suitable for particular classes of work.
