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Rh ruling. The larger squares are ruled, the smaller are printed from engraved rolls or from electrotypes of engraved plates. Printed on drawing paper, also on thin paper for subsequent reproduction by contact with sensitized papers.

Stencil Papers (Waxed) are used in connection with cyclostyle, mimeograph and similar machines. Thin, strong, unsized papers are coated with wax, and a stencil is actually made by removing the wax in various ways. For stencils made by handwriting the wax is removed by writing with a stylus on a file plate or a metal plate covered with bolting silk, or a cyclostyle pen, having a wheel at its tip, is used, making a series of perforations through the waxed paper. With the typewriter the wax is removed by a blow of the letter upon a tissue which is placed in front of the stencil paper. Wherever wax