Word: letterpress
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...Chicago's Lake View, shop classes in printing set type in letterpress instead of the more advanced offset technique. In Newton (Mass.) High School, electronics students learn radio repair with vacuum tubes instead of solidstate sets. And in classrooms from Bangor, Me., to Beverly Hills, Calif., future auto mechanics finish their courses with out scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design...
...words in columns of type are then arranged into pages which are photographically printed onto thin metal plates with chemically treated surfaces. The plates are put on the presses, and the inked impressions transferred to a roller and then to paper. This "offset" printing is cheaper than the usual letterpress printing, which employs heavy, molded metal plates. But at the moment, offset plates are practicable only for papers with a fairly short press...
While the second issue of the magazine closely follows the editorial pattern set forth in the first, one fairly important mechanical change has been made. The Review has substituted letterpress printing for the rather fuzzy photo-offset process it used last time. Margins are wider and typography is clearer; the redesigned cover is superb. One gets a general impression of expertise: here are people who know what they are about...
...read Braille as well as the printed word, and made no sharp distinction in her mind between the two kinds of reading. Her senses of touch and sight had become practically interchangeable. Had Rosa developed her Braille touch so highly that she could feel the shapes of characters in letterpress printing? With a sheet of glass over a printed page, Rosa could no longer read fine print, but she could still make out headline type in strong light...
...letterpress printers no longer sneer at offset. In their own shops, they have seen the offset presses rise alongside the giant letterpress machines as versatile, helpful and increasingly indispensable purveyors of the printed word...