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Link to history-of-type article in NYT. Maybe an exhibit worth traveling to, as well...

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Dick Margulis

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Dec 24, 2011, 12:46:21 PM12/24/11
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Don't know if anyone else already posted this link. Nice article on REAL
type...

<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/arts/design/printing-for-kingdom-empire-republic-review.html>

Character

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Dec 24, 2011, 1:55:51 PM12/24/11
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First thing I saw when I opened the paper this morning! I don't much
about moveable type and terminology, but why do what are described as a
mold and matrices appear visually correct rather than reversed, as the
punches do?

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David E. Ross

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Dec 24, 2011, 3:30:56 PM12/24/11
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A reversed punch would create a non-reversed mold from which reversed
type would then be cast.

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