(from the article `printing`) Cold type is the expression used, particularly in the United States, to describe a simple and economic method of preparing text by machines ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/108
Refers to most modern typesetting methods, such as phototypesetting, because they do not involve pouring hot molten metal into molds for different type fonts.
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Headlines and text produced on photographic paper and pasted up in a composing room. Increasingly supplanted by electronic transmission of pages directly to a printing plant, where the pages emerge as metal plates to go on the printing press. (courtesy of John E McIntyre) Found on http://www.journalism.co.uk/terms-definitions-dictionary-terminology-words/