Typesetter Hoodies

Etaoin shrdlu is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print accidentally in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators to fill out and discard lines of type when an error was made. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore - a documentary about the last issue of The New York Times composed using hot metal (2 July 1978) was titled Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu - and "etaoin shrdlu" is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

This design of a print shop with its printing press and type would be perfect for anyone in the printing trade.

This design of a gigantic letter "A" in movable type in a print shop would be perfect for anyone in the printing or publishing trade.

The slug cutters were an essential hand tool in early print shops. They were used to precisely cut leads and slugs, the metal material used to create space between lines of text.

In an old fashioned printer's shop, hand set type had to be set backwards, since it would read forward in a mirror-image when it was printed.

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Group of letters in an old fashioned print shop. Hand set type had to be set backwards, since it would read forward in a mirror-image when it was printed.

This image of a print shop with its printing press and type would be perfect for anyone in the printing trade.

Rollers used to spread ink used in printmaking.