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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 430094, member: 56&quot;]From Encyclopedia Britannica:</p><p><b>Stereotype</b>, type of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/printing-publishing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/printing-publishing" rel="nofollow">printing</a> plate developed in the late 18th century and widely used in letterpress, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/newspaper" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/newspaper" rel="nofollow">newspaper</a>, and other high-speed press runs. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Stereotypes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Stereotypes" rel="nofollow">Stereotypes</a> are made by locking the type columns, illustration plates, and advertising plates of a complete newspaper page in a form and molding a matrix, or mat, of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/papier-mache" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/art/papier-mache" rel="nofollow">papier-mâché</a> or similar material to it; the dried mat is used as a mold to cast the <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stereotype" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stereotype" rel="nofollow">stereotype</a> from hot metal. A stereotype plate is much stronger and more durable under the press run than would be the composed page of type.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/stereotype-printing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/stereotype-printing" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/technology/stereotype-printing</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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