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.
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Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface desi
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
…leading manufacturer of newspaper and book typesetting equipment. Its main competitor was the American Intertype Corporation and the British-American Monotype Corporation. Starting in the late 1950s, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company became a major supplier of phototypesetting equipment which included laser typesetters…
Monotype caster
The founding-stone of the former Monotype House in London, now in the collection of the Type Archive, London
An index of typefaces issued by Monotype