Item Name: Printing 1913 - 1921

Item ID: Printi-AH3

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements August 1911 until October 1914

1. Know the names of ten different kinds of type and ten sizes of paper.

2. Be able to compose by hand or machines.

3. Understand the use of hand or power printing machines.

4. Print a handbill set up by himself.

5. Be able to read and mark proof correctly.

 

Requirements October 1914 until December 1943

1. Explain the point system, and identify ten sizes of types.

2. Set and correctly space type by hand from manuscript.

3. Set and print a display card or advertising handbill from original copy for use in connection with local scout work.

4. Print one hundred copies of same on a 10 x 15, or smaller, job press, demonstrating correct methods of washing-up, inking, use of setting pins, use of make-ready, and accurate feeding.

5. Read and mark proof correctly.

6. Give the grade or kind of paper most suitable for various classes of printing.