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Flong

In relief printing, a flong, also called a matrix or mat, is a flat material made of paper and paste or wood pulp and filler that can be formed into a mold by pressing it onto a forme of set type or other relief matter, such as printing blocks. When heated to dry or after pressing, the flong is removed, and the resulting mold is used to cast a flat or…

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History

Prior methods of creating stereotype molds

Flong types

Uses

Casting

Etymology

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Flong

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples117
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Flong

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related to Etymology · 21
Flong → According, Bartolomeo, Company, Dellagana, Electrotyping, England, English, Frankish, French, Giacomo, Late Latin, Old French, Paris, Southward, Stereotyping, Swiss-Italian, The, The French, They, When
related to history · 21
Flong → Bibles, Charles Stanhope, Der, Earl Stanhope, Fladen, Ged's, German, However, In, Jean Baptiste Genoux, Johann Kunckel, Kunst, London, Löwenstern, Scotland, The, The French, The Times, Various, Werck-Schule
related to Wet flong · 14
Flong → Any, Der, Drying, French, German, Here, However, In, Jean Baptiste Genoux, Kunst, Paper-based, The, The French, Werck-Schule
related to Newspaper production · 12
Flong → Ben Dalgin, Dalgin, George Kubler, However, Mat Only, New York Times, Office, Saturday, Sunday, The, United States Government Publishing, Washington
related to Surviving examples · 12
Flong → Columbus, Flongs, Glenn Fleishman, However, Library, More, Museum, Ohio, Ohio State University, Relatively, The Billy Ireland Cartoon, These
related to Dry flong · 11
Flong → By, Dry, England, George Eastwood, Germany, Instead, It, Once, The, United States, Unlike
related to In popular culture · 9
Flong → April, April Fools' Day, Hoaxes, Ki-flong, Museum, On, San Serriffe, The, The Guardian
related to Casting · 7
Flong → Alternatively, Before, L-shaped, Sometimes, The, These, This
related to Advertising and syndication · 4
Flong → Cartoon, Clip-art, National, Sunday
related to Book and job printing · 4
Flong → Brothers, Flat, Harper, Stereotypes

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type flongs process casting dry newspaper stereotyping stereotype metal use plates printing paper used flat box made mold wet production

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Flongis aEnglish phonetic form of the French word flan0.90text
Flonghas methodSeveral0.60section
Flongrelated to Advertising and syndicationNational0.60section
Flongrelated to Advertising and syndicationCartoon0.60section
Flongrelated to Advertising and syndicationSunday0.60section
Flongrelated to Advertising and syndicationClip-art0.60section
Flongrelated to Book and job printingStereotypes0.60section
Flongrelated to Book and job printingFlat0.60section
Flongrelated to Book and job printingHarper0.60section
Flongrelated to Book and job printingBrothers0.60section
Flongrelated to CastingThe0.60section
Flongrelated to CastingSometimes0.60section

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