A few days ago
koolkitti70

Duties of a worker or apprentice of a printing shop in the mid 1800s?

What sort of things would they do? It is for a creative writing assignment in my english class.

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A few days ago
omnisource

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Cleaning presses/platens.

Sweeping up.

Melting pig iron.

Pouring type.

Setting type.

Re-melting used type.

Mixing inks.

Printing handbills.

Taking orders.

Making proofs.

Doing design layout.

Pasting ad copy.

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A few days ago
98765
Hey, that’s what Ben Franklin did beginning at 17 years old as an apprentice in America.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
if you look at the link below, it will have some info about print shops then…and by looking at the articles you can get some ideas of what people did. good luck.
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