industrial lord

Chapter 79 Printing Several Books
The printing place is tens of meters away from the paper making place, leaving room for future development.

The craftsmen here are full of energy. A while ago, everyone worked overtime to print the "Holy Code". Afterwards, they all got a bonus and a few days off, so they came to work today.

Frederick and Katie came to the plate-making place first.

Carpenters were busily carving masters of letters of various sizes that were not intended to be printed directly, but cast metal types.

When printing the "Holy Code" before, the carpenters first carved the wooden characters one by one, flattened them with a flat plate in the mold, fixed them with hot slime glue, and then printed them on the sand mold. Considering the large amount of printing, they used copper To cast the mold, and then the surface of the copper mold was rested and polished, and the content of the final trial printing was a mess.

The main reason is that the letters used are handwritten, and the places that are too thin cannot be printed, and the places that are too close are connected together due to ink bleeding.

At this time, Katie made a move and redesigned the "print" on the spot. The strokes of the letters were even in thickness and spaced appropriately. At the same time, the ink formula was adjusted to reduce the amount of oil used.

The second trial printing was considered a success, but only one side could be printed, and the oil of the ink still seeped to the back.

So Katie added a little turpentine to the ink prepared with linseed oil according to her past experience in painting oil paintings, and now she barely passed the mark.

There is still a little oil seeping to the back, so I can only find a way from the production of paper in the future.

Then there is the heavy and boring work.

Many scribes from Wessenburg were called in, and they were responsible for assembling and proofreading the typefaces according to the content.

In the future, the work of scribes will be impacted by printing, so it is better to let them adapt to the new work in advance.

The machine used for printing is a high-tech new product. Ogilvy modified a batch of punching machines. The fonts are placed, ink is applied, paper is placed, a foot switch is used, and the pressure plate controlled by magic muscles can be pressed down.

The last thing is to arrange according to the page number, drilling, threading, and trimming.

Everyone walked and watched together, and Katie said to Frederick: "Schmidt said that he has a way to improve the printing machine to make the printing speed a little faster, but the strength of the paper needs to be increased."

"Oh?" Frederick asked curiously, "Did he say how to do it?"

Katie shook her head and said, "I don't understand, I said a lot of core things."

At this time Koehler said: "Schmidt said that he planned to use the core of the golem puppet to control the printing machine, let the paper go in through the conveyor belt, and the machine would stop and print the word after it judged its position, and then pass it out, and then He can wipe the ink himself, and we only need to put the paper in."

"He also said that if our paper and inks are OK, we can print double-sided in one pass."

Frederick nodded slightly, thinking that this guy is so powerful, he might as well mention the glue binding machine to him to see if he can make it out.

Katie took Frederick to the place where the typefaces were placed, picked up a wooden frame and said: "I thought of a good way to make the paper into a fixed size, divide a colored painting into different templates according to the color, each template One color, as long as this piece of paper is printed with different colors one after another, it will be a colorful painting in the end!"

Frederick nodded, suddenly, his eyes became sharper.

"Sister, Keehler," he said earnestly, "I have a task to trouble you with, that is, whether you can produce thick and printed cardboard with smooth sides."

Katie asked him, "What bad idea are you thinking?"

Frederick smiled and said, "You don't want to play thick and heavy wooden poker anymore, do you?"

These days there are playing cards and other cards, but they are made of thin wood chips, which are heavy to hold and difficult to shuffle.

"Got it, I'm only thinking about weird things." Katie poked his head angrily.

Frederick had a weird smile on his face.

A ghost, the ghost of a small raccoon, wanders in the air.

Everyone talked and walked towards the office, and came to Koehler's office.

This place is also full of shelves, with a lot of trial-produced paper on it, as well as corresponding craftsmanship and formulas.

Frederick studied it curiously, picked up a piece of paper and looked at it for a long time, tears streaming down his face.

"This kind of paper should be produced first!" He said firmly.

Katie went over to take a look and asked him, "Why did you make this? It's not strong, it's too soft, and it absorbs water. It will break if it touches water."

Frederick turned to Tarot and said, "Let's see if this kind of paper can replace a handkerchief to wipe things, and throw it away after use."

Katie knocked him on the head, and said a little angrily: "It's such a waste at a young age."

Frederick was in a hurry to use the toilet paper, and immediately said, "Sister, you just don't understand."

"For those wealthy nobles, wasting money is a waste of money, to prove that they are rich."

Tarot chimed in: "That's true, the masters are all about pomp, but our master is still young."

"correct……"

She suddenly thought of something, put down the shoulder bag and dragged Katie outside to mutter for a long time.

After the two of them finished muttering, they returned to the office as if nothing had happened, but their eyes were filled with "Don't ask!"

Everyone sat down, and Koehler showed Frederick a sample, saying: "This is an improvement based on the last paper. After removing the bark, it is much whiter, and after adding grass fibers, it is much firmer and smoother. According to experience, adding a little more agar can print on both sides.”

Frederick took it over and looked at it, feeling pretty good, and then asked Tarot to take out a few books from his bag.

He put the book on the table and said: "This is the book I wrote before, and the results of this winter. If the paper and ink are all right, let's print 100 copies of each, and pay at the market price."

Koehler replied: "We recently did a cost calculation. The cost price of a book the size of the Holy Code is 10 sides and 4 copper plates. The market price is 1 copper plate and 1 side, and there is no discount on both sides."
Frederick blinked, and wanted to ask him if he came from time travel with a printing shop, and there was no discount on double-sided printing.

He asked again, "What about the blank page?"

Koehler replied: "The binding is less than 6% good."

Frederick thought about it. The size of the "Holy Code" printed this time is equivalent to a large 32-page book, about 600 pages. The cost of printing here is 6 kreutz, and the price is 8 kreutz to sell to the Church of Light. They add a little more price to sell it to believers. This price is still acceptable to ordinary families, after all, one book can be used for many, many years.

The number of pages he wants to print this time is not so outrageous, and the potential customers are scholars and other people with looser hands, so the cost is lower.

"I think it's okay." Frederick pushed the book in front of him forward, "Let's print these first."

Katie knew that he had been writing all winter, but it was the first time he had seen what he wrote, so she flipped through it out of curiosity.

"The Nature of Light", I've heard of it, sent it to Venice, and also helped find a craftsman who can grind lenses, but this kind of craftsman is hard to find. I heard that one has been jailed recently, so it should be able to be fished out.

"The Three Natures of Force and the Energy of Object Movement and the Conjecture of Why We Stand on the Earth", I don't understand, I yawn.

"The Combination of Algebra and Geometry", what is the plane Cartesian coordinate system?What is analytic geometry?
"Factory Management Manual", what is this, seems to understand a little bit, seems not to understand.

Katie hastily flipped through a few books, feeling a little dizzy.

After she finished reading a copy of Koehler, she picked it up and flipped through it. No one should miss the book of the genius principal, and then it didn't move as if it was fixed there.

When it was lunch time, Frederick and the others went to have lunch, and there were a few more guys in the office who were addicted to books.

After Schmidt and the others adjusted the machine, they came to Koehler and found that he didn't bother him when he was reading, so he picked up the book on the table and started reading.

Frederick slipped back to the castle quickly after lunch, so as not to be blocked to ask this and that, and then closed the door to thank the guests.

In the following days, apart from continuing to attend classes in the morning and practicing magic and martial arts, Frederick just stayed in the study all day writing and drawing.

　: The book price refers to the Song Dynasty.In the fourth year of Jiayu (1059), Suzhou sold "Du Gongbu Ji", which was 21.7cm high and 15.5cm wide, with 940 pages, about 188000 characters. Page price was 1000 grams of rice at that time.In the fourth year of Jingde (1.06), the price of wheat in Caizhou (today's Zhumadian, Henan) and other places was found to be half that of japonica rice, so the price per page was 127 grams of wheat.1008 silver coin for this book is 254 kg of wheat, and 1 copper coins are 50 silver coin, which translates to 100 copper coins per page.This is still the selling price, not the cost. The price of "Du Gongbu Ji" is 1 liters, and the profit is estimated to be 1-0.5 liters.Therefore, the cost of this book is 1000 copper plates per page.At that time a page was a side.

　　
　
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