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What (who) is linotype - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Linotype (disambiguation)

Linotype         
·add. ·noun The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines.
II. Linotype ·add. ·noun A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.
Linotype         
['l??n?(?)t??p]
¦ noun Printing, trademark a composing machine producing lines of words as single strips of metal.
Origin
C19: alt. of the phr. line o' type.
Mergenthaler Linotype Company         
  • A woman operates a Linotron 505, a cathode ray tube phototypesetting machine. Dresden, 1983.
TYPE FOUNDRY
Linotype GmbH; Linotype-Hell; Linotype Library; Linotype-Paul Ltd; Mergenthaler Linotype; Mergenthaler linotype machine
The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (), a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the world's leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment; outside North America, its only serious challenger for book typesetting was the Anglo-American Monotype Corporation.

Wikipedia

Linotype

Linotype may refer to:

  • Linotype machine, a typesetting machine, once commonly used for newspapers
  • Mergenthaler Linotype Company (later, Linotype GmbH), a type foundry that produced the first linotype machines
  • Linotype (alloy), a group of lead alloys, used in linotype machines
Examples of use of linotype
1. The linotype made books commonplace and revolutionized the newspaper business by speeding up the process by which the news made it to print.
2. One of them, the linotype machine, was named after its ability to set entire "lines of type" by keyboard rather than by hand.
3. This is a world away from the mighty press halls of hot metal and Linotype and the cold–type bromides that succeeded them.
4. "It was stories and poems that you could set ahead of time and pluck into the hole." Museum has items from 1885÷ The museum boasts an 1885 prototype of the first linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
5. He also worked for newspapers in Saginaw and Lansing before moving to New York City in 1'54 to become editor of the Linotype News, where he was able to share his design ideas.