Hot metal typesetting
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Hot metal typesetting
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In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing. This method injects molten type metal into a mold that has the shape of one or more glyphs. The resulting sorts or slugs are later used to press ink onto paper. Normally the typecasting machine would be controlled by a keyboard or by a paper tape. It was the standard technology used for mass-market printing from the late nineteenth century until the arrival of phototypesetting and then
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Mechanical analog method for text composition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_metal_typesetting
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2024-04-21T02:15:29Z
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