Position of cuts on the page
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When
it can be avoided, an illustration should be the page so that it will not back another illusput tration on the following page, for this backing of
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two cuts against each other increases the labor of press work and may produce a "set-off" of black ink where it is not needed, to the damage of each illustration.
The cut that
is not wide enough to fill the meabut that is too wide to have type put on one side, may have its appearance improved by surrounding it with a rule border. A rule with face about one point thick is better than the hair-line rule, especially if it is intended for a red-ink line. Parallel or concentric rules, one for black and one
sure,
for red ink, are finical niceties it is difficult to them on a in sheet exact print large parallel. Two illustrations of the same size that have ;
been prepared as mates to face one another on opposing pages should be made up to face with exactness. Cuts that are not mates can be placed at the head or side or foot of the page, to avoid the appearance of monotonous uniformity. When a cut of full width is put at the head of the page, the running
title
and the
folio figures
should be suppressed, and the folio of the page may be put in small figures in the foot-line. When a table or cut of full broad measure must
appear in a page of two or more columns, each column of type must be made up to read continuously from the head to the foot of the page, and