type-setting
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Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
Thus while he was doing haphazard type-setting, and trying to interest carriage builders in a new wagon brake, he was also beginning to write.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson
Describe briefly the three important kinds of type-setting used today.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Type-setting Eclipsed.—A new machine has been invented at Minneapolis which supersedes type-setting.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
There was a good supply of type, to be sure, but he was not much of a printer, and type-setting did not come easily to him.
From Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way by William Osborn Stoddard