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
Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine and company founder
An 1896 Mergenthaler Linotype stock certificate
A woman operates a Linotron 505, a cathode ray tube phototypesetting machine. Dresden, 1983.
Ludlow Typograph
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A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing. The device casts bars, or slugs of type, out of type metal primarily consisting of lead. These slugs are used for the
Ludlow metal typesetting machine in Gutenberg Museum in Fribourg, Switzerland
