When I was in high school my best friend actually had an old printing press with boxes of type, and we used it to set, print, and distribute a n unofficial school newsletter. There was no such thing as personal computers or even word processors. We were still using the bleeding edge tech. Yeah, okay, there was mimeograph and typewriters and expensive Xerox, but for poor high school kids, we used what we had. We set type by hand, inked the rotary pad, and cranked out what we thought was a funny, cool , edgy publication.
goatharper on August 30th, 2020 at 08:14 UTC »
When I was in high school my best friend actually had an old printing press with boxes of type, and we used it to set, print, and distribute a n unofficial school newsletter. There was no such thing as personal computers or even word processors. We were still using the bleeding edge tech. Yeah, okay, there was mimeograph and typewriters and expensive Xerox, but for poor high school kids, we used what we had. We set type by hand, inked the rotary pad, and cranked out what we thought was a funny, cool , edgy publication.
imstuman on August 30th, 2020 at 11:20 UTC »
A printing block of commonly used phrases was called a "cliché".
Spoogen_1 on August 30th, 2020 at 11:33 UTC »
Also....each grouping of letters is called a Sort. And sometimes they would run out of letters, which is where the term, "Out of sorts" came from.