Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — A Typewriting Point. [ARTICLE]

A Typewriting Point.

“When in anything typewritten you see the periods and commas punched black and deep.” said an experienced typewriter, “you may knbw that the work was done by a beginner or by one who had not yet done sufficient work to have acquired a perfect touch. “The reason for the deep punching of the punctuation points is very simple. Naturally enough the beginner at typewriting 'plays upon all the keys with equal force,. but as the, types attached to the keys present unequal amounts of printing surface it follows that equal force applied to all the keys results In more or less unequal printing on the paper. "For instance, a certain amount of force applied to the B key might produce of that type a fair impression on the paper, but the same force applied to a period might drive that, a mere point, clean through the paper. In fact, it is not unusual for begin ers on the typewriter to punch holes in the paper with their periods. “But as the learner progresses In her art she comes to realize that some types must be touched more lightly than others and gradually her periods become less black and deep, and with further practice she comes instinctively, automatically, to grade her touch on all the letters and signs until at last she Is able to produce typewriting that Is nothing less than artistic In effect true and uniform and beautiful. “It is something fine to see, the good work of the intelligent, sensitive and truly competent typewriter.”