California job case

noun

, Printing.

1. a job case having sufficient spaces to contain both uppercase and lowercase letters and 37 additional characters of foundry type. Compare case ²( def 8 ).

Example Sentences

Mr. Dorfsman presented a partitioned type drawer known as a California job case to Frank Stanton, the design-conscious president of CBS, and declared: “We’re going to do a big one of these.”

From New York Times

California Job Case—An extensively used type case arranged with boxes to hold capitals, small letters, figures, points, and the usual characters of a job font, complete in a single tray.

From Project Gutenberg

Similar to the California job case, but with more boxes on the capital letter side.

From Project Gutenberg