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DARKROOM: An enclosed space with minimal light exposure for image processing.

FLOORMAN: a printer who worked on laying out the text and images for newspaper pages.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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