Boiler Plate In offset printing, a block of text (or type) that can be used over and over again in various jobs and situations, without being altered to any great degree.
Originally, boiler plates were made from steel instead of the softer lead alloys commonly used, which allowed them to stand up to hundreds of copies. Boiler plates (of a syndicated newspaper column, an advertisement, or an entire edition, for instance) would be created at a central location and shipped to other cities for use by those local presses.
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