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SLUG: a line of text cast in lead by a Linotype machine.

SLIPBOARD: the large board used by printers and supervisors to indicate worker's senority and availability.

RAYCOMP: a computer system which printers used to lay out ad pages digitally.

PASTE-UP: to cut, fit, and glue the printed headlines, body text, and graphic elements of a newspaper page together into a single page, to be photographed and made into a printing plate.

PAGINATION: a computer system which printers used to lay out the classified pages digitally.

MAKE-UP: the arrangement of the elements of a newspaper page done by a floorman.

LUDLOW: an early form used in newspaper printing that used hand-set characters to create type.

LOBSTER: refers to the early morning shift often worked by Deaf printers.

LINOTYPE: a typesetting machine that used molds and molten lead to cast lines of text used in printing.

HOT METAL: a form of typesetting machinery that utilized molten lead to cast type; often used to refer to Linotype machines, which cast whole lines of text known as slugs.