California job case

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a job case having sufficient spaces to contain both uppercase and lowercase letters and 37 additional characters of foundry type.

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Example Sentences

Mr. Dorfsman presented a partitioned type drawer known as a California job case to Frank Stanton, the design-conscious president of CBS, and declared: “We’re going to do a big one of these.”

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2014

Similar to the California job case, but with more boxes on the capital letter side.

From Type Cases and Composing-room furniture by Stewart, A. A.