{"id":234,"date":"2011-03-02T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:44:15","slug":"print-shop-equipment-the-printers-ruler-or-line-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/03\/02\/print-shop-equipment-the-printers-ruler-or-line-gauge\/","title":{"rendered":"Print shop equipment: the printer&#8217;s ruler, or &#8220;line gauge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here is my first post on the equipment we already have in the Watkinson for our little print shop.\u00a0 Thanks to Joe Laws (&#8217;12) for his work in organizing and photographing these for the blog!\u00a0 Most of the definitions are taken from Rummonds&#8217; <em>Printing on the Iron Hand Press<\/em> (1998), but I will not bother with quotes and page references&#8211;buy the book if you are that interested!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/line-gague.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/line-gague.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/line-gague.jpg 2553w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/line-gague-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/03\/line-gague-1024x434.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <em>line gauge<\/em> is a\u00a0rule or stick to measure the width and length of composition calibrated in picas [the printer&#8217;s unit of measure equivalent to twelve points&#8211;used to express the width and depth of the text and type page].\u00a0 It is usually 72 picas long, and is also called a &#8220;gauge,&#8221; &#8220;pica gauge,&#8221; or &#8220;type gauge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NB:\u00a0 The American Point System, which was adopted in 1886 by the United States Typefounders Association, is the standard in the U.S. and U.K.; it consists of two units of measure:\u00a0 the <em>point<\/em> and the <em>pica<\/em>; the point =0.13832 inches (0.351 mm), and one pica = 12 points.\u00a0 Type sizes and their spacing material is given in points; line lengths are measured in pica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here is my first post on the equipment we already have in the Watkinson for our little print shop.\u00a0 Thanks to Joe Laws (&#8217;12) for his work in organizing and photographing these for the blog!\u00a0 Most of the definitions are taken from Rummonds&#8217; Printing on the Iron Hand Press (1998), but I will not [&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":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}