Well just as proof that memory does not always serve, there were some errors in my description of the process. I have corrected the previous piece.
The linotype would generate inch high slugs of lead--single lines of raised reverse type that would be collected in the stick. These would go to the composing table and assembled. this made it easy to adjust the columns by taking out a line that made it too long and putting in a continued to page n.
Should have remember it as those slugs were used all around the paper as paperweights.
Other than that I had it pretty on target.
And for those who want to know how it is now, newspaper printing uses offset lithography and direct computer to plate composition. The romance of hot lead is gone.
The linotype would generate inch high slugs of lead--single lines of raised reverse type that would be collected in the stick. These would go to the composing table and assembled. this made it easy to adjust the columns by taking out a line that made it too long and putting in a continued to page n.
Should have remember it as those slugs were used all around the paper as paperweights.
Other than that I had it pretty on target.
And for those who want to know how it is now, newspaper printing uses offset lithography and direct computer to plate composition. The romance of hot lead is gone.
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