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A dab hand

Posted by Gerald on October 26, 2009 at 11:35

'A dab hand'. I was led to believe was an old printing term for the mushroom shaped tool called a dab that the ink was applied to the the dab and onto the letters for the printer, if there were no gaps in the printing the person who applied the ink was thus a dab hand.

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