In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) refers to technologies 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 and slugs are later used to press ink onto paper.
Types of typesetting
Two different approaches to mechanising typesetting were independently developed in the late 19th century. One, known as the Monotype composition caster system, produced texts with the aid of perforated paper-ribbons, all characters are cast separate. These machines could produce texts also in "large-composition" up to 24 point.
The Super-caster, another machine produced by Monotype, was similar in function to the Thompson, Bath, pivotal and others casters but designed to produce single type (including even larger sizes) for hand setting.
The other approach was to cast complete lines as one slug, usually comprising a whole line of text.
It is divided into two machines, the Monotype keyboard and the Monotype caster, which communicate by perforated paper tape. It is not necessary to have the same number of each machine.
The Monotype caster casts individual letters, which are assembled into lines in a fashion similar to classical movable type. This requires a more complex high-speed water-cooled casting mold, but only requires one matrix per possible character.
A Monotype operator enters text on a Monotype keyboard, on which characters are arranged in the QWERTY arrangement of a conventional typewriter, but with this arrangement repeated multiple times. Thus, the typesetter moves his hands from one group of keys to another to type uppercase or lowercase, small capitals, italic uppercase or italic lowercase, and so on.
When the text nears the right margin, a drum on the keyboard indicates codes which are punched on the paper tape with special keys to indicate how the line is to be justified. The tape is then taken to a Monotype caster, which reads the tape and produces a column of justified type from which the text entered on the keyboard can be printed.
How mechanical typesetting works (Intertype, Linotype, Hot Metal)
How mechanical typesetting works.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Sponsor: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Communication: Typesetting; Occupations: Printing
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Source:
published: 14 Sep 2011
Hot Metal Histories
Inspired by Typography: http://www.dandad.org/inspiration/inspired-by/typography
The craft of typography stirs great passion in creatives.
Has the digitisation of Typography killed the craft? For our second film with Monotype we decided to talk to Robin Nicholas who has been working in type for over 45 years and has seen firsthand those changes -- from pencil to pixel.
In 1982, Robin created a sans serif typeface for low-resolution laser printers that was further developed, with Patricia Saunders, into the Arial typeface family. The family was chosen by Microsoft as a core font for Windows.
From the archive itself Robin showed us the earliest drawings of some of his own designs for the typeface Nimrod and together we also dug out some early archive footage of the hot metal processes t...
published: 06 Feb 2014
Monotype Machine - Hot Metal Typesetting
Video grabado en 1991. Muestra la manera en que se fundía tipo movible para imprenta.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotype
Printing using an old press. Composing into forms for the lineotype
The linotype machine ( /ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ lyn-ə-typ) is a "line casting" machine used in printing. Along with letterpress printing, linotype was the industry standard for newspapers, magazines and posters from the late 1800s to the 1960s and 70s, when it was largely replaced by offset lithography printing and computer typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.
The Linotype machine operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles matrices, which are molds for the le...
published: 11 Aug 2012
Hand Composing
published: 15 Apr 2013
A Real, Working Linotype Machine
In which I go to Woodside Press in Booklyn to check out their Linotype machine!
Blog post with more photos of the machine: http://karenkavett.com/blog/1249/visiting-a-linotype-machine.php
Previous videos:
New York Adventures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrxYuADgj4
DIY Thanksgiving Crafts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj9k0azZIc
Linotype: The Film: http://www.linotypefilm.com/
Thanks to Woodside Press for letting me come by and make this video!
http://www.woodsidepress.com/
And also thanks to Lauren Bird for helping to film this video!
http://www.youtube.com/user/thehpalliance
http://www.youtube.com/user/loraxism
The montage music is The Comic Sans song by Gunnarolla:
http://gunnarolla.bandcamp.com/album/22songs-bandcamp-edition
http://youtube.com/gunnarolla
End music by Hank G...
published: 26 Nov 2012
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
A spoken definition of hot metal typesetting.
Intro Sound:
Typewriter - Tamskp
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Outro Music:
Groove Groove - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Intro/Outro Photo:
The best days are not planned - Marcus Hansson
Licensed under CC-BY-2.0
Book Image:
Open Book template PSD - DougitDesign
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Text derived from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_metal_typesetting
Text to Speech powered by TTS-API.COM
How mechanical typesetting works.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Sponsor...
How mechanical typesetting works.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Sponsor: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Communication: Typesetting; Occupations: Printing
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Source:
How mechanical typesetting works.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Sponsor: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Communication: Typesetting; Occupations: Printing
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Source:
Inspired by Typography: http://www.dandad.org/inspiration/inspired-by/typography
The craft of typography stirs great passion in creatives.
Has the digitisati...
Inspired by Typography: http://www.dandad.org/inspiration/inspired-by/typography
The craft of typography stirs great passion in creatives.
Has the digitisation of Typography killed the craft? For our second film with Monotype we decided to talk to Robin Nicholas who has been working in type for over 45 years and has seen firsthand those changes -- from pencil to pixel.
In 1982, Robin created a sans serif typeface for low-resolution laser printers that was further developed, with Patricia Saunders, into the Arial typeface family. The family was chosen by Microsoft as a core font for Windows.
From the archive itself Robin showed us the earliest drawings of some of his own designs for the typeface Nimrod and together we also dug out some early archive footage of the hot metal processes that Monotype was built on.
Inspired by Typography: http://www.dandad.org/inspiration/inspired-by/typography
The craft of typography stirs great passion in creatives.
Has the digitisation of Typography killed the craft? For our second film with Monotype we decided to talk to Robin Nicholas who has been working in type for over 45 years and has seen firsthand those changes -- from pencil to pixel.
In 1982, Robin created a sans serif typeface for low-resolution laser printers that was further developed, with Patricia Saunders, into the Arial typeface family. The family was chosen by Microsoft as a core font for Windows.
From the archive itself Robin showed us the earliest drawings of some of his own designs for the typeface Nimrod and together we also dug out some early archive footage of the hot metal processes that Monotype was built on.
Printing using an old press. Composing into forms for the lineotype
The linotype machine ( /ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ lyn-ə-typ) is a "line casting" machine used in printin...
Printing using an old press. Composing into forms for the lineotype
The linotype machine ( /ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ lyn-ə-typ) is a "line casting" machine used in printing. Along with letterpress printing, linotype was the industry standard for newspapers, magazines and posters from the late 1800s to the 1960s and 70s, when it was largely replaced by offset lithography printing and computer typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.
The Linotype machine operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles matrices, which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, of type metal in a process known as "hot metal" typesetting. The matrices are then returned to the type magazine from which they came, to be reused later. This allows much faster typesetting and composition than original hand composition in which operators place down one pre-cast metal letter, punctuation mark or space at a time.
The machine revolutionized typesetting and with it especially newspaper publishing, making it possible for a relatively small number of operators to set type for many pages on a daily basis. Before Mergenthaler's invention of the Linotype in 1884, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.[1]A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as among the most influential events in the second millennium[1] revolutionizing the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity.[2]
See more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine
See this machine at Dardanup Heritage Park http://www.dardanupheritagepark.com.au
Printing using an old press. Composing into forms for the lineotype
The linotype machine ( /ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ lyn-ə-typ) is a "line casting" machine used in printing. Along with letterpress printing, linotype was the industry standard for newspapers, magazines and posters from the late 1800s to the 1960s and 70s, when it was largely replaced by offset lithography printing and computer typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.
The Linotype machine operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles matrices, which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, of type metal in a process known as "hot metal" typesetting. The matrices are then returned to the type magazine from which they came, to be reused later. This allows much faster typesetting and composition than original hand composition in which operators place down one pre-cast metal letter, punctuation mark or space at a time.
The machine revolutionized typesetting and with it especially newspaper publishing, making it possible for a relatively small number of operators to set type for many pages on a daily basis. Before Mergenthaler's invention of the Linotype in 1884, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.[1]A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as among the most influential events in the second millennium[1] revolutionizing the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity.[2]
See more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine
See this machine at Dardanup Heritage Park http://www.dardanupheritagepark.com.au
In which I go to Woodside Press in Booklyn to check out their Linotype machine!
Blog post with more photos of the machine: http://karenkavett.com/blog/1249/visi...
In which I go to Woodside Press in Booklyn to check out their Linotype machine!
Blog post with more photos of the machine: http://karenkavett.com/blog/1249/visiting-a-linotype-machine.php
Previous videos:
New York Adventures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrxYuADgj4
DIY Thanksgiving Crafts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj9k0azZIc
Linotype: The Film: http://www.linotypefilm.com/
Thanks to Woodside Press for letting me come by and make this video!
http://www.woodsidepress.com/
And also thanks to Lauren Bird for helping to film this video!
http://www.youtube.com/user/thehpalliance
http://www.youtube.com/user/loraxism
The montage music is The Comic Sans song by Gunnarolla:
http://gunnarolla.bandcamp.com/album/22songs-bandcamp-edition
http://youtube.com/gunnarolla
End music by Hank Green:
http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green
Check out my website: http://karenkavett.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkavett
Subscribe to my second channel: http://youtube.com/karenkavett
Follow me on Tumblr: http://karenkavett.tumblr.com
Follow me on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/karenkavett/
Thanks for watching, and DFTBA!
In which I go to Woodside Press in Booklyn to check out their Linotype machine!
Blog post with more photos of the machine: http://karenkavett.com/blog/1249/visiting-a-linotype-machine.php
Previous videos:
New York Adventures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrxYuADgj4
DIY Thanksgiving Crafts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj9k0azZIc
Linotype: The Film: http://www.linotypefilm.com/
Thanks to Woodside Press for letting me come by and make this video!
http://www.woodsidepress.com/
And also thanks to Lauren Bird for helping to film this video!
http://www.youtube.com/user/thehpalliance
http://www.youtube.com/user/loraxism
The montage music is The Comic Sans song by Gunnarolla:
http://gunnarolla.bandcamp.com/album/22songs-bandcamp-edition
http://youtube.com/gunnarolla
End music by Hank Green:
http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green
Check out my website: http://karenkavett.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkavett
Subscribe to my second channel: http://youtube.com/karenkavett
Follow me on Tumblr: http://karenkavett.tumblr.com
Follow me on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/karenkavett/
Thanks for watching, and DFTBA!
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
A spoken definition of hot metal typesetting.
Intro Sound:
Typewriter - Tamskp
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Outro Mus...
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
A spoken definition of hot metal typesetting.
Intro Sound:
Typewriter - Tamskp
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Outro Music:
Groove Groove - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Intro/Outro Photo:
The best days are not planned - Marcus Hansson
Licensed under CC-BY-2.0
Book Image:
Open Book template PSD - DougitDesign
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Text derived from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_metal_typesetting
Text to Speech powered by TTS-API.COM
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
A spoken definition of hot metal typesetting.
Intro Sound:
Typewriter - Tamskp
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Outro Music:
Groove Groove - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Intro/Outro Photo:
The best days are not planned - Marcus Hansson
Licensed under CC-BY-2.0
Book Image:
Open Book template PSD - DougitDesign
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Text derived from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_metal_typesetting
Text to Speech powered by TTS-API.COM
How mechanical typesetting works.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Sponsor: Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, Italy
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Communication: Typesetting; Occupations: Printing
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Source:
Inspired by Typography: http://www.dandad.org/inspiration/inspired-by/typography
The craft of typography stirs great passion in creatives.
Has the digitisation of Typography killed the craft? For our second film with Monotype we decided to talk to Robin Nicholas who has been working in type for over 45 years and has seen firsthand those changes -- from pencil to pixel.
In 1982, Robin created a sans serif typeface for low-resolution laser printers that was further developed, with Patricia Saunders, into the Arial typeface family. The family was chosen by Microsoft as a core font for Windows.
From the archive itself Robin showed us the earliest drawings of some of his own designs for the typeface Nimrod and together we also dug out some early archive footage of the hot metal processes that Monotype was built on.
Printing using an old press. Composing into forms for the lineotype
The linotype machine ( /ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ lyn-ə-typ) is a "line casting" machine used in printing. Along with letterpress printing, linotype was the industry standard for newspapers, magazines and posters from the late 1800s to the 1960s and 70s, when it was largely replaced by offset lithography printing and computer typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line-o'-type, a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of letters.
The Linotype machine operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles matrices, which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, of type metal in a process known as "hot metal" typesetting. The matrices are then returned to the type magazine from which they came, to be reused later. This allows much faster typesetting and composition than original hand composition in which operators place down one pre-cast metal letter, punctuation mark or space at a time.
The machine revolutionized typesetting and with it especially newspaper publishing, making it possible for a relatively small number of operators to set type for many pages on a daily basis. Before Mergenthaler's invention of the Linotype in 1884, no newspaper in the world had more than eight pages.[1]A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as among the most influential events in the second millennium[1] revolutionizing the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity.[2]
See more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine
See this machine at Dardanup Heritage Park http://www.dardanupheritagepark.com.au
In which I go to Woodside Press in Booklyn to check out their Linotype machine!
Blog post with more photos of the machine: http://karenkavett.com/blog/1249/visiting-a-linotype-machine.php
Previous videos:
New York Adventures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrxYuADgj4
DIY Thanksgiving Crafts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj9k0azZIc
Linotype: The Film: http://www.linotypefilm.com/
Thanks to Woodside Press for letting me come by and make this video!
http://www.woodsidepress.com/
And also thanks to Lauren Bird for helping to film this video!
http://www.youtube.com/user/thehpalliance
http://www.youtube.com/user/loraxism
The montage music is The Comic Sans song by Gunnarolla:
http://gunnarolla.bandcamp.com/album/22songs-bandcamp-edition
http://youtube.com/gunnarolla
End music by Hank Green:
http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green
Check out my website: http://karenkavett.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/karenkavett
Subscribe to my second channel: http://youtube.com/karenkavett
Follow me on Tumblr: http://karenkavett.tumblr.com
Follow me on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/karenkavett/
Thanks for watching, and DFTBA!
What does hot metal typesetting mean?
A spoken definition of hot metal typesetting.
Intro Sound:
Typewriter - Tamskp
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Outro Music:
Groove Groove - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Intro/Outro Photo:
The best days are not planned - Marcus Hansson
Licensed under CC-BY-2.0
Book Image:
Open Book template PSD - DougitDesign
Licensed under CC:BA 3.0
Text derived from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hot_metal_typesetting
Text to Speech powered by TTS-API.COM
In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) refers to technologies 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 and slugs are later used to press ink onto paper.
Types of typesetting
Two different approaches to mechanising typesetting were independently developed in the late 19th century. One, known as the Monotype composition caster system, produced texts with the aid of perforated paper-ribbons, all characters are cast separate. These machines could produce texts also in "large-composition" up to 24 point.
The Super-caster, another machine produced by Monotype, was similar in function to the Thompson, Bath, pivotal and others casters but designed to produce single type (including even larger sizes) for hand setting.
The other approach was to cast complete lines as one slug, usually comprising a whole line of text.
Metallic mayhem on the loose Molten rock provides the juice Rampant start, you just can't hold Burning heat lost all control Everywhere you just can't hide Spreading out it's nationwide Metal lets you live today Bands like us, we lead the way Hot metal, turning you around Hot metal, burning you down Hot metal, gets in your brain I'm feeling pain, from hot metal Maximum volume soon abtained Rivet heads now unchained Studs and leather overflow Aim to please at the show Infesting cities one by one Clenching fists, damage done Always keeping up the pace