composing room

We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.

A separate elevator in their home took him directly from his library to his composing room; he did not have to walk through the main rooms and see her purchases.

One of those pages — called “takes” — would be scrolled up in a canister and sent via pneumatic tubes to the composing room.

At four thirty, all the copy would go to the composing room, where the text was set into lead type for the printing presses in the basement.

Ms. Levy was hired as a “copy boy,” the archaic title used for staffers tasked with ferrying edited stories to the composing room and performing other menial tasks.