{"id":237,"date":"2011-03-02T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:43:20","slug":"print-shop-equipment-the-composing-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/03\/02\/print-shop-equipment-the-composing-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Print shop equipment: the composing stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/composing-sticks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/composing-sticks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/composing-sticks.jpg 2157w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/composing-sticks-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/composing-sticks-1024x773.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have some nice composing sticks already, but if we do get a real printing club going, we&#8217;ll need a few more.<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u00a0hand-held, three-sided tray in which type is set and justified to a specific measure.\u00a0 Modern sticks are two-sided trays with an adjustable third side called a knee.\u00a0 The types are placed against the long side of the stick.\u00a0 We have three different sized sticks in the Watkinson, shown here.\u00a0 To set type, you stand at the case (the tray of letters, each arranged in little boxes) and set each letter one at a time, backwards.\u00a0 Depending on the font size, you can do several lines before placing them on the press to be locked in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have some nice composing sticks already, but if we do get a real printing club going, we&#8217;ll need a few more. This is a\u00a0hand-held, three-sided tray in which type is set and justified to a specific measure.\u00a0 Modern sticks are two-sided trays with an adjustable third side called a knee.\u00a0 The types are placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}