Image:Metal movable type.jpg

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English: Note: the plate says - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and feels as if he were in the seventh heaven of typography together with Hermann Zapf, the most famous artist of the"

Français : Caractères mobiles d'imprimerie. On peut lire en anglais: "Le renard rapide saute par dessus le chien paresseux (équivalent anglophone de "Voix ambiguë d'un cœur qui au zéphyr préfère les jattes de kiwis"), comme s'il était dans le septième ciel de la typographie avec Herman Zapf, l'artiste le plus célèbre du"

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This image was selected as a picture of the day for November 2, 2006. It was captioned as followed:

English: A set of metal types

Asturianu: Tipógrafu metálicu

Česky: Kovové tiskařské litery

Cymraeg: Set o teip metal y wâsg.

Deutsch: Bleisatz: Setzkasten mit Winkelhaken

English: A set of metal types

Esperanto: metalaj tipoj por tradicia presado

Español: Caracteres tipográficos en metal.

Français : Caractères typographiques en métal

Galego: Caracteres tipográficos en metal.

Magyar: Nyomdai betűfémek

Italiano: Caratteri tipografici in metallo.

日本語: 金属活字

‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬: Eit sett med metalltypar.

Polski: Kaszta zecerska z czcionkami.

Русский: Набор металлических литер

Slovenščina: Črkovnjak in vrstičnik z ročnim stavkom

Svenska: En uppsättning metalltyper.

Türkçe: Değişik metaller

‪中文(简体)‬: 金属活字

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:57, 9 August 2006	2,288×1,520 (1.79 MB)	Céréales Killer	(L'image était inversée par rapport à la réalité (foi d'un ancien typographe...) !)
	02:50, 20 May 2005	2,288×1,520 (1.78 MB)	Lupin	(Source: http://sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=238776)

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File change date and time	18:54, 9 August 2006
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Date and time of digitizing	21:52, 28 September 2004
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