It is impossible to give a scale of prices by the square inch for
miscellaneous job-work, as sometimes a small cut two or three inches
square may require as much work as another one a foot square. We can,
however, give an average inch rate to newspaper publishers whose work
runs uniformly about the same from week to week, especially when they
furnish us with copy already prepared--such as prints and pen-and-ink
drawings.
In sending for estimates, be careful to send us the copy we are to
work from, with full specifications as to size and quality, and
remember that it is the same with engraving that it is with everything
else; the price will vary greatly with the quality of work ordered.
Never, directly or indirectly, ask us to give _you_ better prices than
we give our other customers, as we try to treat all alike.
The great advantage of our method of engraving enables us to give
better work at lower prices than can be given by any other method for
the greater part of such work as would be given to wood-engravers,
though in very small pieces of the poorer grades of work the advantage
is not so great, and in very coarse work such as is usually engraved
on mahogany and pine, our process gives us no advantage over the
wood-engraver.
To estimate properly upon any piece of work, we must understand just
what is wanted. We guarantee all our work to be executed in the style
agreed upon.