long primer


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long primer

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longprimer

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(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (formerly) a size of printer's type, approximately equal to 10 point
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Collins offered to this Board 'to cast from three to six sets of plates on any type from Long Primer to Pearl inclusive, at fourteen hundred dollars a set; the page of any size wanted; & to give security that the plates should be executed in a style equal to any that can be procured, & furnished in as short time as can be done in any foundry whatever.' Shortly afterward Messrs.
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Long repeats will require long primer tails, which are more difficult and expensive to synthesize.
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