composing room

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

After Monical was honorably discharged in 1958, he returned to Bloomington-Normal and, in 1960, began a 40-year career at The Pantagraph, working in the composing room, assembling ads and the articles.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020

He wrote: “The glory of the composing room is gone forever, and soon will be but a reminiscence as it fades before the everyday, practical typesetting machine.”

From Economist • Mar. 30, 2018

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.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin