ink-fountain

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noun An iron trough attached to a printing-press to contain ink and control its flow to the inking-rollers; an inking-trough.

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Just as the impression cylinder comes to a stop, a set of grippers seize the front edge of the printed sheet, draw it over and away from the impression cylinder, and deposit it, with the printed side up, upon a table near the front of the press and above the ink-fountain and distributing rollers.

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At the front of the press is the ink-fountain and a number of steel and composition rollers, called the "distributing rollers."

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They placed rollers at an angle across the ink-table and introduced the revolving roller and the scraping blade in the ink-fountain.

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