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Matrix (printing)

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In the manufacture of metal type used in letterpress printing, a matrix, from the Latin meaning womb or a female breeding animal, is the mould used to cast a letter, known as a sort. [1]

23 relations: Copper, Digital print matrix, Display typeface, Electroplating, Electrotyping, Engraving, Etching, Font, Garamond, Hand mould, History of Western typography, Hot metal typesetting, Justin Howes, Letterpress printing, Microsoft, Middle Ages, Page (paper), Pantograph, Printmaking, Punchcutting, Sort (typesetting), Type metal, Woodcut.

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Digital print matrix

A digital print matrix is the digital state from which a print art object can be instanced with original intent.

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Display typeface

A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use at large sizes for headings, rather than for extended passages of body text.

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Electroplating

Electroplating is a process that uses an electric current to reduce dissolved metal cations so that they form a thin coherent metal coating on an electrode.

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Electrotyping

Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

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Etching

Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal.

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Font

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

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Garamond

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond (generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime).

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Hand mould

A hand mould is a simple mould used for low quantity work.

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History of Western typography

Contemporary typographers view typography as a craft with a very long history tracing its origins back to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times.

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Hot metal typesetting

In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing.

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Justin Howes

Justin Howes (1963-2005) was a British historian of printing and lettering.

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Letterpress printing

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing using a printing press, a process by which many copies are produced by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against sheets or a continuous roll of paper.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Page (paper)

A page is one side of a leaf (or sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents.

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Pantograph

A pantograph (Greek roots παντ- "all, every" and γραφ- "to write", from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Punchcutting

Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type.

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Sort (typesetting)

In typesetting by hand compositing, a sort or type is a piece of type representing a particular letter or symbol, cast from a matrix mold and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a form from which a page is printed.

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Type metal

In printing, type metal (sometimes called hot metal) refers to the metal alloys used in traditional typefounding and hot metal typesetting.

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Woodcut

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(printing)

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