hot metal

English

Noun

hot metal (uncountable)

1. (printing) Printing type cast from molten metal; hot metal typesetting.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 127:

     A Fleet Street veteran of the hot-metal days, he had moved to the Mediterranean and spotted an anglophone niche among the marinas and yacht brokers.

   • 2011 July 27, Jon Henley, “Rupert Murdoch and the battle of Wapping: 25 years on”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In the mid-80s, most British newspapers were still produced using hot metal, despite the widespread use elsewhere of modern offset litho technology.