many types of formes in printing in general. The design of the printing surface and the material of the forme depend on the printing process employed. For...
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-forme or forme in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Forme may refer to the following: Forme (printing), a chase with type locked up ready for printing...
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movable type printing from individually cast, reusable letters set together in a "forme" (frame or chase). Gutenberg also invented a wooden printing press,...
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A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring...
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taken from the surface of a forme of type.: stereotype The mould was known as a flong. In the days of set movable type, printing involved placing individual...
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Movable type (redirect from Type (printing))
image called a forme, where all letter faces are exactly the same height to form a flat surface of type. The forme is mounted on a printing press, a thin...
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Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Woodblock...
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Flong (category Printing terminology)
In relief printing, a flong, also called a matrix or mat, is a temporary negative paper mould made from an impression in a forme of set type or other relief...
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Original Heidelberg Platen Press (category Letterpress printing)
performs the actual printing. In letterpress an impression is made on the paper by having a platen press the paper against a forme. The forme has the desired...
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Cults is a 3D printing marketplace allowing designers, makers and other users to share free and paid models meant for 3D printing. It is also a social...
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Prakash. The advertisement stated the price of per forme of Bengali printing was six taka and per forme of English was five taka. Even after the seven years...
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Off stone (category Printing)
from the early days of printing when an imposing stone, a slab of stone or metal on which the type was set into a layout (or forme), was used to align the...
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A quoin is a device used to lock printing type in a chase in letterpress printing. Quoins are pairs of wedges, facing opposite directions. A wrench or...
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Hot metal typesetting (category Printing technology)
In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for...
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Seneca (The Forme and Rule of Honest Lyvynge, 1546; The Myrrour or Glasse of Maners, 1547; and De remediis fortuitorum, 1547), the Forme and Myrrour actually...
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Brayer (category Letterpress printing)
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A brayer is a hand-tool used historically in printing and printmaking to break up and "rub out" (spread) ink, before it was "beaten"...
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Electrotyping (category Printing)
for example in the printing of novels and other books of unpredictable popularity. The movable type used to compose the original forme could then be re-used...
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Composing stick (category Printing terminology)
lines, which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed. Many composing sticks have one adjustable end, allowing the...
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Wood engraving (category Relief printing)
relief printing of wood blocks for small images in the text such as initials, taking advantage of relief printing blocks to be fitted into the same forme or...
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When a chase is locked up with type, furniture, and quoins, it is called a forme. Haynes, Roscoe E. (1922). American Printer and Lithographer. Moore Publishing...
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He then binds the type forme set by each visitor in a galley, and (time permitting) prints these using a hand-operated printing press to make a galley...
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Power Grid Abbreviation that was used in the printing industry to refer to the electrotyped copy of a forme. A Yashica series of cameras (Electro 35, TL...
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The Imprint was a periodical aimed at the printing trade, published in 9 issues from January to November 1913. The publishers were the Imprint Publishing...
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Garamond-style typefaces are popular to this day and often used for book printing and body text. Garamond's types followed the model of an influential typeface...
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Quran (section Writing and printing)
grand que celui de la Mesdjid el-Acsa. Au surplus, l'aire de cette dernière forme un parallelogramme dont la hauteur est de deux cents brasses (ba'a), et...
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Mechanical wave Wave equation D'Alembert (1747) "Recherches sur la courbe que forme une corde tenduë mise en vibration" (Researches on the curve that a tense...
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Champagnac [in French] (1839). "Clermont-Ferrand". Manuel des dates, en forme de dictionnaire. Perisse frères. Benoît Gonod [in French] (1839). "Histoire...
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light sources are lit up sequentially Chase (printing), a (metal) frame that is used to contain a printing forme Chase (TV channel), a defunct Philippine...
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Medieval English cookbooks include The Forme of Cury and Utilis Coquinario, both written in the fourteenth century. The Forme of Cury is a cookbook authored by...
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Llibre de Sent Soví Llibre del Coch Com tayllaràs devant un senyor The Forme of Cury Du fait de cuisine Domostroy In their introduction, Gina L. Greco...
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