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2. Baren (printing tool) - Wikipedia

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   The bamboo-sheath covering the baren may need to be renewed after a day's printing. Rewrapping requires great skill; a printer's ability is sometimes judged by their competence carrying out this work. [3] The disk inside the baren takes 40–50 days to create, as the craftsman glues one sheet of paper on the disk each day.

3. Brayer - Wikipedia

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   A brayer is a hand-tool used historically in printing and printmaking to break up and "rub out" (spread) ink, before it was "beaten" using inking balls or composition rollers. A brayer consists of a short wooden cylinder with a handle fitted to one end; the other, flat end is used to rub the ink. [1]

4. Ink ball - Wikipedia

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   By the mid- to late-19th century, they had been largely superseded by the composition roller and the rubber roller or "brayer". [4] [5] The replacing of the labor-intensive ink balls, which had to be worked by hand, with mechanized rollers was a key factor to the growth of mechanized printing machines in the 19th century. [6]

5. Composition roller - Wikipedia

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   A composition roller is a tool used in letterpress printing to apply ink to a bed of type in a printing press. It consists of a cylinder made of a substance known as "roller composition" or simply "composition", a mixture of hide glue and sugar (in the form of molasses or treacle ), with various additives such as glycerin depending on the ...

6. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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   Printers' workshops, previously unknown in Europe before the mid-15th century, were found in every important metropolis by 1500. [6] Later metal presses used a knuckle and lever arrangement instead of the screw, but the principle was the same. Ink rollers made of composition made inking faster and paved the way for further automation.

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