typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in...

typesetting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metal Type – For Those who Remember Hot Metal Typesetting TeX Users Group Fundamentals of typesetting...

[citation needed] During the hot metal typesetting era, printing equipment used matrices to cast type as needed during the typesetting process. The popular Linotype...

It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use. Linotype became one of the mainstays for typesetting, especially...

Hot metal may refer to: Hot Metal, a British television comedy series set in a newspaper office Hot metal typesetting Pig iron in a liquid state HoTMetaL...

printing, type metal refers to the metal alloys used in traditional typefounding and hot metal typesetting. Historically, type metal was an alloy of...

Prior to the advent of phototypesetting, mass-market typesetting typically employed hot metal typesetting – an improvement introduced in the late 19th century...

its use spread around the globe. The 19th-century invention of hot metal typesetting and its successors caused movable type to decline in the 20th century...

of the name that it represents as in a wordmark. In the days of hot metal typesetting, a logotype was one word cast as a single piece of type (e.g. "The"...

steel used to make boilers to heat water. Metal printing plates (type metal) used in hot metal typesetting of prepared text such as advertisements or...

it is also possible to join movable type with slugs cast using hot metal typesetting. In theory, anything that is "type high" (i.e. it forms a layer...

casting the individual letters known as sorts used in hot metal typesetting by pouring molten metal into brass moulds called matrices. Woodblock printing...

long-lasting and so could be used many times. In the hot metal typesetting systems of the later years of metal type printing, from the late nineteenth century...

offered a large range of styles, some numbered rather than named. The hot metal typesetting companies Linotype, Monotype, Intertype and Ludlow, which sold machines...

Druckmaschinen AG – official website Metal Type — For Those who Remember Hot Metal Typesetting Linotypesetting - Hot Metal Typesetting for Hobbyists and the Trade...

it was the Linotype typesetting machine, which composed in a hot metal typesetting process, that became the new popular typesetting machine. Writer Mark...

oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author...

tables and number-association with written Chinese characters that made typesetting and printing more efficient. Still, the main method in use there remained...

to actual typesetting (a common practice before computer-assisted typesetting). Another hint of the design's origins in hot-metal typesetting technology...

rarely employed. Gutenberg greatly improved the process by treating typesetting and printing as two separate work steps. A goldsmith by profession, he...

individual units of metal type for manual composition. While this was acceptable for posters, by the 1950s hot metal typesetting machines had long since...

because it was much cheaper than traditional print – there was neither typesetting nor skilled labor involved. One individual with a typewriter and the...

released in 1954 both by the C. E. Weber foundry as metal type and Linotype for hot metal typesetting. Despite a common association with blackletter typefaces...

matrix for the printing press. In 1896, Lanston patented the first hot metal typesetting machine and Monotype issued Modern Condensed, its first typeface...

packages which provide extra typesetting functionality – built around the original TeX language. TeX is a popular means of typesetting complex mathematical formulae;...

Several revivals of the Didot faces have been made, first for hot metal typesetting and then for phototype and digital versions. Digital use of Didot...

process, a method that made the traditional publishing method of hot metal typesetting obsolete. Rene Alphonse Higonnet was born in Valence, Drôme in southeastern...

of sizes. In addition, hand printing had been superseded by the hot metal typesetting systems of the period, of which Monotype's was one of the most popular...

the new hot metal typesetting technology of the period created increasing availability and demand for new fonts. Among hot metal typesetting companies...

as a competitor to the successful Futura typeface for Monotype's hot metal typesetting system. Like Futura it has a single-story 'a' and a straight 'j'...