@Jeremy Keith Hammond: I'd rather switch to Linux than a Mac. With a paid OS, even if you don't end up paying for a "new version" that is really just a bug fix (as I've already done with MS), they've still got you trapped. As soon as they stop fixing security issues (and even Macs have vulnerabilities - the reason so…

The photos don't show the type being assembled into a "plate" - if the printer told you that, he really doesn't know his stuff. The frame is a "chase", the wooden blocks are "furniture", the metal things you see with holes in them (you insert a key and twist - they expand to hold the type and furniture in place in the…