Standard Specifications For Book Printing

Author : Joseph B. Smarr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331979623
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Standard Specifications for Book Printing written by Joseph B. Smarr and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Standard Specifications for Book Printing: For the Use of State and Municipal Governments Publishers, Universities and Other Institutions A proper purchasing system is an absolutely essential feature of a municipal government. Definite specifications for everything is the prime essential of good buying. Contract graft of every kind results generally from loosely drawn specifications. This is the commonest agency through which municipal officials and methods are corrupted. The printing industry is approximately four hundred years old, and many of its implements, methods, and practices have remained unchanged during this entire period. It is one of the few industries that has consistently and successfully resisted all efforts toward its systematization. The thoughts of the leading men during the last twenty years have been devoted largely to a propaganda in favor of a highly developed cost system. This industry probably puts a larger percentage of its gross receipts into ascertaining manufacturing costs than any other. In the mind of the average printer, the ascertaining of costs is thought to be fundamental to efficiency and prosperity. As a matter of fact, the keeping of costs is only comparable to book-keeping or accounting. Cost keeping is, at best, only a history of something that has happened, - recorded data. As practiced in the printing industry it has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency or the improvement of methods; it is little more than a memorandum bearing only indirectly upon the cutting down of manufacturing costs. The inevitable result of a highly developed cost system, maintained in the absence of an active crusade for better methods, is that the charges to the public are constantly increased. This is exactly what has gone on in printing costs all over the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.