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With compositors, printed copy, or a fair written hand, and full of breaks, pleases well, and is called good copy, light, easy work; with pressmen, great letter and a small form is called easy work. — M.
The term is not now generally used: what Moxon describes as relating to compositors would now be termed good copy; and with respect to pressmen it would be called light work, or a light form.
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