a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuatinga keyboard. Google's really useful.
The Linotype machine was a typesetting machine used in the printing industry to quickly and efficiently produce lines of text for newspapers, books, and other printed materials. Invented in the late 19th century, it revolutionized the printing process by allowing operators to create entire lines of metal type instead of individual characters. The machine was widely used for several decades before being gradually replaced by digital typesetting technology.
Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore invented linotype
Ottmar Mergenthaler
The linotype machine is a typesetting machine that produces lines of metal type for printing. It assembles individual letters and characters into lines of text, casting them into a single piece of metal for use in printing presses. It revolutionized the printing industry by automating the typesetting process.
Ottmar Mergenthaler is not known as an author. He was a German-American inventor who developed the Linotype machine, which revolutionized the printing industry by enabling the automated setting of type for newspapers, magazines, and books.
Mergenthaler Linotype Company was created in 1886.
Emil Meyer - linotype operator - was born in 1862.
The Space Band in a Linotype machine is used to insert spaces between words or characters to create proper spacing in the line of text being produced. It ensures that the text is evenly distributed and formatted correctly for printing.
1965, the year Dr. Rudolf Hell introduced the Digiset phototypesetter. This machine, and the more-popular Linotype Linotron 505, worked by putting individual, digitized characters on the screen of a cathode ray tube. The light from the tube was focused by a lens onto photographic paper. Story from the very old days: Frank Romano, who is one of the giants of this industry, bought a Linotron 505 to use in his company. Linotype was not shy about pricing their parts, and Romano decided to find out what was in the machine. He removed the case...to discover that about 90 percent of the parts in a Linotron 505 were available at Radio Shack. So...he wrote an article in TypeWorld listing the Radio Shack parts in his machine. Linotype sued him for copyright infringement. They lost. Romano then sued Linotype for a lot of things, and won. He built an addition onto his home with the proceeds from the settlement and named it the "Linotype Wing."
In the Pendulum,Deadly Linotype refers to the First World War.
The Linotype
Canadian Linotype has written: 'Typographic sanity' -- subject(s): Type and type-founding, Printing, Specimens
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