Chase (printing)

(metal) frame that is used to contain a printing forme

A single-page "forme" for printing the front page of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The black frame surrounding it is the "chase"; the pieces of wood are the "furniture", and the two objects each on the bottom and left side are the "quoins".

A chase is a heavy steel frame used to hold type in a letterpress.[1] Most of the space in the chase not occupied with type is filled with blocks of wood called furniture. The type and furniture are locked in place by quoins.[2] When a chase is locked up with type, furniture, and quoins, it is called a forme.

## References

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1. ^ Haynes, Roscoe E. (1922). American Printer and Lithographer. Moore Publishing Company. p. 143. Retrieved 18 June 2016. "This brings the quoins at the top and right end of the chase and opposite the guides to which the sheets are fed."
2. ^ "Letterpress Commons". Retrieved June 18, 2016.

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Letterpress printing

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Ways to make
impressions|

| Movable type|

* Type casting
* Type metal
* Punchcutter
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Blocks and plates|

* Stereotype
* Flong
* Logographic printing
* Wood engraving
* Electrotype
* Zinc etching

Typesetting|

| Manual typesetting|

* Type case
* Composing stick
* Sort
* Slug
* Strut
* Reglet
* Furniture
* Leading
* Quoin
* Chase
* Forme
* Hellbox

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Hot metal typesetting|

* Linotype machine
* Monotype system
* Ludlow Typograph
* Intertype Machine
* Paige Compositor

Printing press|

| Parts of a press|

* Platen
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* Tympan
* Bed

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Inking|

* Offset ink
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* Composition roller

Types of presses|

* Hand press
* Stanhope
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* Albion
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Other equipment|

* Folding machine
* Paper cutter
* Addressograph

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Typography

Page|

* Canons of page construction
* Column
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* Margin
* Page numbering
* Paper size
* Pagination
* Pull quote
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Paragraph|

* Alignment
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* River
* Runaround
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* runt

Character|

| Typeface anatomy|

* Counter
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* Swash
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Capitalization|

* All caps
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Visual distinction|

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Horizontal aspects|

* Figure space
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* Pitch
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* Thin space
* Word spacing

Vertical aspects|

* Ascender
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Typeface
classifications|

| Roman type|

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Blackletter type|

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Gaelic type|

* Insular
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Specialist|

* Record type
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Punctuation (List)|

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Typesetting|

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* Type design
* Typeface
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Typographic units|

* Agate
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* Metric units
* Pica
* Point
* traditional point-size names
* Twip

Digital typography|

* Character encoding
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Typography in other
writing systems|

* Arabic
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* Thai
* National Fonts

Related articles|

* Penmanship
* Handwriting
* Handwriting script
* Calligraphy
* Style guide
* Type design
* Type foundry
* History of Western typography
* Intellectual property protection of typefaces
* Technical lettering
* Vox-ATypI classification

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