type-setting

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The foreman of the composing room distributes the manuscript, called copy, among skilled operators, who by means of type-setting machines put it into type.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

In the composing room, where the copy is put into type, and in the linotype room, where a part of the type-setting is done by machinery, 95 persons.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 by Various

The compositor fairly ran to his type-setting machine and began to operate the keys, which were arranged like those on a very large typewriter.

From Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Garis, Howard Roger

Machines and apparatus for type-setting, printing, stamping and embossing, and for making books and paper making.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

Practice of Typography   Modern Methods of Book Composition   a treatise on type-setting by hand and by machine and on the proper arrangement and imposition of pages by Theodore Low DeVinne, A. M.   New York   The Century Co.   1904. 12mo, cloth.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various