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The printing trades (1916)

Shaw, Frank L. (Frank Leslie), b. 1882, Cleveland Foundation. Survey Committee. Cleveland education survey · Cleveland, Ohio : Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation · leaf 32

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e setting it up. Machine OperatorsTypesetting for books, magazines, and news-papers is usually done on composing machines,either linotypes or monotypes. The linotype isthe more commonly used in Cleveland. The ma-chine is provided with a keyboard resemblingthat of a typewriter. As each key is struck… … The monotype consists of two machines, thekeyboard and the caster. The operationof the keyboard is similar to that of the lino-type, but instead of releasing matrices it punchesholes in a ribbon of paper at the top of themachine. This perforated paper, when placedin the caster, controls the action…

Printing industry · Book industries and trade · Vocational Education

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