Distribution

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006925",
  "term": "Distribution",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "The process in letterpress printing of returning individual pieces of metal type to their correct compartments in the type case after a print run is finished. This manual task is the reverse of composition, where the type is set for printing. Accurate distribution is necessary to prevent a “foul case,” where a wrong character is placed in a compartment and later picked by mistake.",
  "subject": "Industrial printing",
  "see_also": [
    "distributor"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Ausdistribution",
    "es": "distribución",
    "fr": "distribution"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/distribution/"
}