The Linotype machine (/ ˈlaɪnətaɪp / LYNE-ə-type) is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related …

Linotype, (trademark), typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It …

Jun 8, 2022 · The linotype was the long-awaited machine that would bring speed to a whole new area of the printing process: the composing room. From Gutenberg till the 1880s, letters of …

The machine, finished in the summer of 1877, was a typewriter transfer machine for use in the lithography process. The machine itself functioned accurately and rapidly, but the problems …

The Linotype, and its later competitors—the Intertype and the Linograph—were typesetting machines. These machines produced complete lines of text cast in hot metal, which gave rise …

The linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884 and quickly became a standard tool in the publishing industry. It allowed typesetters to create a complete line of type …

The Linotype machine uses a combination of mechanical and electromechanical processes to cast characters from a keyboard onto a line of text. This line is then transferred onto a …

The Linotype machine consists of a keyboard, laid out based on letter usage, that controls an escapement mechanism at the bottom of a 90 or 72 channel magazine which holds the matrices.

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (/ ˈlaɪnəˌtaɪp, - noʊ -/), a system to cast metal type in lines …

May 31, 2018 · Linotype refers to a machine, power-driven, and manually-operated, that produces composed type on metal bars called slugs. Created and sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype …