CHAPTER XV
THE STOCK ROOM
Selection of papers for stock purposes is not easy to undertake for others, therefore this section can only summarise the information of the earlier chapters and offer suggestions.
The stock room should not be an out-of-the-way room, dark and perhaps damp, but should be light, with ample room to move paper in bulk, so that issues as well as deliveries can be dealt with quickly. It should be possible to control the temperature and humidity of the paper warehouse if the paper is generally used for register work. A dry room is essential, or trouble will ensue, for in damp rooms tub-sized and coated papers will deteriorate, highly glazed papers will go back in finish, papers for colour work will be unreliable, and delay and loss will follow.
In a printing office where small quantities of paper are dealt with, the inconvenience of carrying paper in and out a few reams at a time may not be apparent, but considerable time is wasted and some loss in spoiled sheets results from such a method. Quantities of paper should be dealt with as expeditiously, and with as little handling, as possible. Transporter trucks require, perhaps, more room than is taken by a man or boy lifting reams, but it deals with thirty reams, instead of two at a time, and in up-to-date offices time is counted as valuable as currency.
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