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main article: movable type during much of the letterpress era , movable type was composed by hand for each page . cast metal sorts were composed into words, then lines, then paragraphs, then pages of text and tightly bound together to make up a form, with all letter faces exactly the same "height to paper
", creating an even surface of type. the form was placed in a press, inked, and an impression made on paper. during typesetting, individual sorts are picked from a type case with the right hand, and set into a composing stick held in the left hand from left to right, and as viewed by the setter upside...
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