Make-up with Hot Metal Typesetting

Make-up with Hot Metal Typesetting

A printer making-up a front-page of The Washington Post.

In the Composing Room the pages of the newspaper came together in Make-up. Here printers would use a mark-up sheet prepared by the editors to lay out the galleys of text and other elements to form a page of the newspaper. The lead blocks were locked into a metal frame and printed to create a proof. Once the proof was approved the frame was loaded onto a cart and wheeled to the Engraving Room.

Dick Moore

Dick Moore Collection

1978

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