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To: Psalm 73

Setting type? What was that? As in printing type?


27 posted on 04/12/2021 3:15:05 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Whenever you are stuffing Fulton County ballot boxes, election fraud goes better with Coca Cola!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
"Setting type?"

Yup. Moveable type, like in the old days.

This was the early 70's, so there was no digital.
You would have a type holder (a chase) in your hand and grab type and spaces (ens and ems) as you construct words and sentences.
Then you would load that onto a press, ink up the platen aaaand start printing.

So that was like only 50 years ago, but that's how it was done.

32 posted on 04/12/2021 5:11:15 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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