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Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould shape to cast type. Cutting punches and casting type was the first step of traditional typesetting. The cutting…
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| Punchcutting | is a | craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type | 0.90 | text |
| the angle | instance of | as well as factors | 0.80 | text |
| depth to which it was driven into the matrix | instance of | as well as factors | 0.80 | text |
| would affect the appearance of the type on the page | instance of | as well as factors | 0.80 | text |
| casting type or matrices in sand | instance of | Alternative methods | 0.80 | text |
| plaster or lead were used for these | instance of | Alternative methods | 0.80 | text |
| cutting dies to make coins | instance of | or sometimes specialised itinerant craftsmen.The technique of punchcutting is similar to that used in other precision metalworking professions | 0.80 | text |
| and many punchcutters entered the trade from these fields | instance of | or sometimes specialised itinerant craftsmen.The technique of punchcutting is similar to that used in other precision metalworking professions | 0.80 | text |
| Punchcutting | related to External links | Stan NelsonGravers | 0.60 | section |
| Punchcutting | related to External links | Files | 0.60 | section |
| Punchcutting | related to External links | The | 0.60 | section |
| Punchcutting | related to External links | Rädisch | 0.60 | section |
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