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The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (/ ˈ l aɪ n ə ˌ t aɪ p,-n oʊ-/), a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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.
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Ottmar Mergenthaler (11 May 1854 – 28 October 1899) was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized the art of printing.
The Linotype is a typecasting machine that was commonly in use from 1884 up to the 1980's for the production of lengthy texts, such as in books or newspapers. The machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German watchmaker who moved to the United States in 1872.
Jul 20, 2015 · The first Linotype to be put to practical use—the “Blower Model”—was manufactured by Mergenthaler from 1886 to 1888 in his workshop on Camden and S. Howard streets in downtown Baltimore. Company directors restricted the use of these first one hundred Linotypes to a small group of newspaper publishers who had helped finance the machine.
May 20, 2011 · Linotype dominated for nearly a hundred years, and it's time to revisit the machine's origins. A German immigrant named Ottmar Mergenthaler invented it in the 1880s and continued to promote and...
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.
