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2 unusual facts about Hot metal


Hot metal

Hot Metal, a British television comedy series set in a newspaper office

A Heavy metal magazine that enjoyed wide circulation in Australia and New Zealand in the late 80s and 90s.


David Renwick

This was followed in 1986 by Hot Metal for LWT, a six-part satire of the tabloid newspaper industry starring Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer and John Gordon Sinclair.

Palatino

Palatino has been available in all major typesetting systems over the years, including Linotype and "hot metal" versions.


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History of British newspapers

Despite the widespread use of the offset litho printing process elsewhere, the Murdoch papers in common with the rest of Fleet Street continued to be produced by the hot-metal and labour-intensive Linotype method, rather than being composed electronically.