Editing Movable type (section)

== Metal type combined with other methods ==
[[File:Ceramic type 02.jpg|thumb|Ceramic type from the collections of [[University of Reading]]]]

Sometimes, it is erroneously stated that printing with metal type replaced the earlier methods. In the industrial era printing methods would be chosen to suit the purpose. For example, when printing large scale letters in posters etc. the metal type would have proved too heavy and economically unviable. Thus, large scale type was made as carved wood blocks as well as ceramics plates.<ref>{{cite book| last1=Meggs |first1=Philip B. |last2=Purvis |first2=Alston W. |chapter=Graphic Design and the Industrial Revolution |title=History of Graphic Design |location=Hoboken, N.J |publisher=Wiley |year=2006 |page=139 |url=https://archive.org/details/meggshistoryofgr00unse |url-access=registration |edition=4th |isbn=978-0-471-69902-6}}</ref> Also in many cases where large scale text was required, it was simpler to hand the job to a [[Sign painting|sign painter]] than a printer. Images could be printed together with movable type if they were made as [[woodcut]]s or [[wood engraving]]s as long as the blocks were made to the same type height. If [[Intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio]] methods, such as copper plates, were used for the images, then images and the text would have required separate print runs on different machines.