Hot metal typesetting: Difference between revisions

Hot metal typesetting was developed in the late nineteenth century as a development of conventional cast metal type.<ref name="Cold type vs. hot typesetters">{{cite web|last1=Kupferschmid|first1=Indra|title=Cold type vs. hot typesetters|url=http://www.alphabettes.org/cold-type-vs-hot-typesetters/|website=Alphabettes|date=9 November 2012 |access-date=20 August 2017}}</ref> The technology had several advantages: it reduced labour since type sorts did not need to be slotted into position manually, and each casting created crisp new type for each printing job. In the case of [[Linotype machine]]s, each line was cast as a robust continuous block (hence "line o'type") which was useful for rapid newspaper printing.