jobbing printing
jobbing work

At the other end of the scale, jobbing printing is and was above all dependent on local trade; the office is usually small; and disputes when they occur can often be solved informally.

From 1975 to 1981 Giampa's Cobblestone Press in Vancouver published not only jobbing printing but also works by Ezra Pound, Robin Blaser[2] and George Bowering among others.

The office of the Fort Farrell Recorder seemed to be more concerned with jobbing printing than with the production of a newspaper, but my first question was answered satisfactorily by the young girl who was the whole of the staff - at least, all of it that was in sight.

Conversely, small production runs are sometimes referred to as prototype or jobbing work.

The new business rapidly progressed from jobbing work to larger scale public contracts and housing projects.

Jobbing work appeared in which printers did menial tasks in the beginning of their careers to support themselves.

They were used for commercial book-printing until the middle of the nineteenth century, and thereafter chiefly for proofing, jobbing work and by private presses.

For more than ten years it was the only one of its size and it ran for many years night and day on jobbing work, its earnings forming Clement's principal income.

The minor jobbing work such as labels, bills and prospectuses, which every printer undertook, was a valuable - perhaps an essential - part of the scheme, for it filled gaps that were too short for the stages of book production.

For most of his life he was a grower and fisherman, although he also served in the North regiment of the Royal Guernsey Militia (though not outside the island) and did some jobbing work for the States of Guernsey in the latter part of his life.