Sentence examples for type pieces from inspiring English sources

Preparing a form suitable for use in printing from letterpress copy, whether in individual type pieces or in lines of lead alloy, is an operation called makeup.

In the IBM Multipoint, a first typing calculates the total measurement of the type pieces up to the beginning of the justification zone and causes a coded sign to appear.

The type pieces are chosen by positioning a frame, which carries 17 rows of 20 cubelike matrices in which the letter or symbol appears as a transparency, in negative, in the path of a beam of light.

When all the type pieces in a line have been photographed, the film unwinds the correct amount to present a clean surface ready for the phototypesetting of a new line, while the fotomats are carried off to the distribution bar.

Since the justification perforations appear before those for the type pieces, they establish for the line to come the amount of space the set of mirrors has to shift at each space command punched in the perforated tape.

Selection of the matrix image of each character can be done either by using a mobile support for the matrices (plastic tape, disk, drum) in front of a fixed source for the beam of light or by using a mobile beam of light in front of a fixed support for the matrices (glass or plastic plate); alignment of type pieces is carried out in either case by mobile prisms or mirrors.

Typro makes use of letters and symbols on a negative film that moves to and fro to place the desired type piece in contact with the photosensitive film.

The 10 turn out to be mostly his bigger, event-type pieces of magic.

The solution was to sandwich a p-type semiconductor between two n-type pieces.

There's a map-covered table dotted with chess-type pieces—"not so many lions," Dany says, meaning the Lannisters.

Character-type pieces were metallic and apparently cast from metallic molds; paper and vellum (calfskin parchment) were used to carry the impressions.