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The Linotype machine ( / ˈlaɪnətaɪp / LYNE-ə-type) is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. [1] It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use.
Jun 8, 2022 · The linotype was the long-awaited machine that would bring speed to a whole new area of the printing process: the composing room. From Gutenberg till the 1880s, letters of type needed to be individually cast in molds and put in order by hand, backwards and in reverse order.
Linotype, (trademark), typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It was patented in the United States in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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May 20, 2011 · Linotype machines powered newspapers, factories, a whole industry that was as American as any and existed for a century, at least until the tides of technology wiped it out as an occupation in...
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May 31, 2018 · Linotype refers to a machine, power-driven, and manually-operated, that produces composed type on metal bars called slugs. Created and sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, its first operation began in 1886 at the New York Herald Tribune.
The machine, finished in the summer of 1877, was a typewriter transfer machine for use in the lithography process. The machine itself functioned accurately and rapidly, but the problems occurred in attempting to transfer the image to the lithographic stone for printing.
May 9, 2024 · Ottmar Mergenthaler (born May 11, 1854, Hachtel, Württemberg [Germany]—died Oct. 28, 1899, Baltimore) was a German-born American inventor who developed the Linotype machine.
