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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 syste
Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935, by A. E. Foster
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Paper tape controlled Linotype Model 5cS, manufactured in Germany (on display at Deutsches Museum, Munich)
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The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the
Linotype machine
…The Linotype machine ( LY-nə-type) 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…
An 1896 Mergenthaler Linotype stock certificate
A woman operates a Linotron 505, a cathode ray tube phototypesetting machine. Dresden, 1983.