cold type
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cold type
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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The skills required to turn hot lead into letters on a Linotype machine or to position a strip of cold type on a grid board were easily transferrable.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
They were doing this in preparation for what turned out to be the glacially-paced change from hot to cold type, tumbling into the … gulp … digital age.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2019
His career spanned an era of change in the technology of producing a daily newspaper, the evolution of hot type to cold type and the use of computers to produce a printed paper.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2015
The paper is the first sizable venture in daily publishing by a "cold type" photo-offset process instead of conventional letterpress printing.
From Time Magazine Archive
This remark, spoken gently and with a quizzical little smile, had none of the sharpness that cold type seems to give it.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells
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