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Great documentary: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times

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Great documentary: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times
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09-07-2016, 09:23 PM
Why was it hot metal typesetting? I thought the linotype machines just picked out the desired little metal characters in the order that it was typed in, and the page to print was thus built line-by-line.

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Re: Great documentary: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times - by pdq - 09-07-2016, 09:23 PM

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