Filing (letterpress)

When dropping is called the hot type the process that is no longer needed printing form according to their pressure apart and the letters and the blank material into its individual subjects in the type case to cover. It requires concentrated work so that the letters (also known as printing types) are not stored in the wrong compartment. The wrongly sorted letters are called "fish".

The mechanical execution of this work has been solved with the help of the filing machine . It mechanically feeds the letters back into the reservoir of the typesetting machine. In manual typesetting, this work was also entrusted to the apprentices (in Germany from 1970: the trainees) in order to get to know the division of the type case .

Line setting and casting machines also automatically transported the dies used for casting into their respective storage containers. This process is also known as filing.

See also : Printer language  and printing technology

literature

• Claus W. Gerhardt : Shed . In: Severin Corsten , Günther Pflug , et al. (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system . 2nd Edition. Volume I. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-7772-8527-7 , p. 10.