viii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1912 
INTERLINED PRINTING FOR THE 
BLIND 
HEN printing for the blind was first 
introduced a raised Roman letter was 
used ; but years ago it was found that a sys- 
tem of points could be more easily distin- 
guished than those letters, and now practi- 
cally all printing for the blind is done in the 
point system. It has the advantage that 
stereotype plates can be made without hay- 
ing to set up type. 
The plates are made on machines con- 
trolled by a keyboard. When the operator 
strikes certain combinations of these keys, 
the point characters representing the letters, 
are made directly on brass or zinc plates. 
One of these brass plates is placed on a 
cylinder press and against it on the opposite 
cylinder is a rubber blanket. As the moist 
paper is fed between this rubber and plate, 
the impression is made upon the paper, and 
when it dries it is hardened so that it does 
not rub down under the touch of the finger 
in reading. By this process, however, only 
one side of the paper can be utilized. 
For some time interlining or interpointing 
has been done by means of double plates by 
which both sides of the paper could be used, 
but this process was so very slow that it was 
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largely impractical. The British and Foreign 
Blind Association in London has done inter- 
lining or interpointing by means of a platen 
press, but the Ziegler Publishing Company 
for the Blind of New York, publisher of 
the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, 
has lately devised a plan by which the prin- 
ciple can be applied to the rotary press, and 
it is possible to do interlined printing at 
the rate of over 25,000 pages an hour. 
For this purpose double brass plates are 
made. A double sheet of brass is placed in 
the plate-making machine and the lines are 
made in the regular way on one side of this 
double plate, but the points are made to go 
through both plates. After the lines of 
points are made on one side, the double 
plate is reversed and the lines of points are 
made on the other side between the lines 
that have been previously made on the other 
side of the plate, so that on each side of 
each plate there is a row of points alternat- 
ing with a row of holes which make the 
points on the reverse side. Each point, 
therefore, on each plate has a corresponding 
hole into which it fits into the other plate. 
It will be readily seen that if a sheet of 
paper is put between these two plates and 
they are pressed together, an impression 
will be made on both sides of the paper. 
Now, to apply this to the rotary press, the 
Ziegler Publishing Company has had the 
cylinders of its press so registered that if 
one of these double plates is placed on one 
cylinder and the other on the opposite cylin- 
der, they will fit as the two cylinders revolve 
together, and each point on the one plate 
will strike directly into the corresponding 
hole on the other plate and wice versa. The 
moist paper is fed between these plates and 
the rubber is done away with. It is found 
that in this way a more perfect and uniform 
print can be secured than heretofore. 
By this process 50 to 75 per cent. more 
matter is obtained on each sheet of paper, 
which means almost a revolution in print- 
ing for the blind, for not only is the paper 
expensive, but matter for the blind spreads 
out so that under the old process books were 
of necessity very bulky. The first issue of 
the magazine to contain the new printing 
was that of October last. Sixteen pages 
were interlined, and the readers were not 
only greatly delighted with getting more 
reading matter in their magazine, but they 
found that it was just as easy to read as 
before. 
