Composition roller
id:
composition-roller-306-7786933
title:
Composition roller
text:
A composition roller is a tool used in letterpress printing to apply ink to a bed of type in a printing press. It consists of a cylinder made of a substance known as "roller composition" or simply "composition", a mixture of hide glue and sugar, with various additives such as glycerin depending on the particular recipe. Early recipes also included gypsum plaster and tar, though these were eventually found unnecessary. Before its invention, most inking of printing presses was done by manually pou
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Letterpress printing tool
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_roller
date created:
date modified:
2023-07-29T14:46:41Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5156800","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5156800"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Typograph_composition_kettle_-_section.png","width":548,"height":818}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15