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Hot metal typesetting machine (1886–1980s)
The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type. Linotype became one of the mainstays for typesetting, especially small-size body text for newspapers, magazines, and advertisements from the late 19th century to the 1970s and 1980s, when it was largely replaced by phototypesetting and then digital typesetting. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: A Multiface Linotype MachineCited 0 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A Multiface Linotype Machine
ANTIMONIAL AND LEAD POISONING FROM THE USE OF THE LINOTYPE MACHINE.
THE LINOTYPE MACHINE—WHAT IT DOES AND HOW IT WORKS
LINOTYPE AND MACHINERY LD.V. HOPKINS
LINOTYPE AND MACHINERY LD.V. HOPKINS
LINOTYPE AND MACHINERY LD.V. HOPKINS
IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY LINOTYPE AND MACHINERY LD. FOR A PATENT
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕LinotypeMergenthaler Linotype Company · 1894
- 📕The linotype and the monolineMonoline Composing Company · 1901
- 📕The linotype operator's companionE. J. Barclay · 1898
- 📕Model fourteen multiple magazine LinotypeMergenthaler Linotype Company. · 1920
- 📕Etaoin shrdlu, or, In praise of slugs · 1984
- 📕The Linotype composing machine · 1907
- 📕The nightmare of a lovesick compositorDeems Taylor · 1926
- 📕A remarkable endorsement of a remarkable machineMergenthaler Linotype Company · 1908
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