hot metal
Noun
Meaning
hot metal (uncountable)
Printing type cast from molten metal; hot metal typesetting.
Examples
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
A Bessemer converter could treat a "heat" (batch of hot metal) of 5 to 30 tons at a time.
In the steel industry, the abbreviation THM means 'tons/tonnes hot metal', which refers to the amount of liquid iron or steel that is produced, particularly in the context of blast furnace production or specific consumption.
Type design Zapf's career in type design spanned the three most recent stages of printing: hot metal composition, phototypesetting (also called cold type), and digital typesetting.
He had tried to create a calligraphic typeface for Stempel in 1948, but hot metal composition placed too many limits on the freedom of swash characters.
Shark finning involves removing the fin with a hot metal blade.