How a Book Is Made

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2. For something more retro, see this documentary about the last hot-lead printing...

...of the New York Times.

I worked for a magazine with an intermediate level of electronic printing. There was a machine that would take small computer text files and output them as narrow strips of print-quality type. But there was still a physical page layout process, cutting up and pasting these strips on cardboard backing to create column and page layouts.