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    The Linotype machine (/ˈlaɪnətaɪp/ LYNE-ə-type) is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler...
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  • The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine (/ˈlaɪnəˌtaɪp, -noʊ-/), a system...
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  • Linotype may refer to: Linotype machine, a typesetting machine, once commonly used for newspapers Mergenthaler Linotype Company (later, Linotype GmbH)...
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    machine keyboards (such as Linotype and Intertype) were arranged by descending letter frequency to speed up the mechanical operation of the machine,...
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    Palatino (redirect from Palatino Linotype)
    Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Named after the 16th-century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista...
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    invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized...
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    casting created crisp new type for each printing job. In the case of Linotype machines, each line was cast as a robust continuous block (hence "line o'type")...
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  • The Linograph typesetting machine was a "line casting" machine, modeled on the Linotype machine, that was used in letterpress printing. It was manufactured...
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  • Linotype or eutectic alloy is a broad name applied to five categories of lead alloys used in manufacture of type, especially for the Linotype machine...
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  • presidents were Pilch (1968–1973) and Bevis (1974–1978). The Mergenthaler linotype machine was used by newspaper printers from the 1880s to the 1970s. Technological...
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    the type to be used, hence are termed "hot metal" typesetting. The Linotype machine, invented in 1884, used a keyboard to assemble the casting matrices...
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  • been used in other non-typewriter typesetting systems such as the Linotype machine and the TeX system. Modern computer-based digital fonts can adjust...
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  • century). It has also been used in other typesetting systems such as the Linotype machine and the TeX system. Modern computer-based digital fonts can adjust...
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    narrowly escaping bankruptcy. A decade later, she acquired a Linotype typesetting machine and expanded the business into the Conzett & Huber publishing...
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    a matrix-case and inserted into a casting machine, which casts the required sorts (or, in a Linotype machine, a solid block for each line) for a page composition...
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  • derived from ETAOIN SHRDLU, the arrangement of the letter keys on a Linotype machine, arranged in descending order of usage frequency in English. SHRDLU...
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    Simplified Arabic (category Linotype typefaces)
    allowed Arabic text to be composed using a Linotype machine. It was first announced in 1959 as Mrowa-Linotype Simplified Arabic. The font was developed...
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  • German-American inventor of the Linotype machine Sara Mergenthaler (born 1979), American sports sailor Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a US corporation founded...
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    widespread until its demise in the 1970s. The first machine of this type was the Linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. During a brief transitional...
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    most significant differences from the competing Linotype machine are that it is divided into two machines, the Monotype keyboard and the Monotype caster...
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    join The Courier as a linotype operator and reporter. Even after witnessing Mr. Smith's speed and precision with the linotype machine, Doug tries to talk...
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  • fed into a Linotype machine with a tape reader at the printing plant. (The tape reader could be retrofitted to an existing Linotype machine, but also special...
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  • newspapers. It supported the 90 printable characters characters of a Linotype machine, plus whitespace characters. The TTS code had two pairs of shift codes...
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    heavily in new technology, such as the Hoe rotary printing press and the linotype machine, but bitterly fought against the unionized workers for control of his...
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  • ciphering system," which, eventually, led to the ASCII of today. 1884: The Linotype machine where the matrices are sorted to their corresponding channels after...
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    relationship with Mergenthaler Linotype Company, as one of just a few producers of matrices for the Linotype machine worldwide and the only one in Europe...
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    particularly useful for "quality" printing - such as books. In contrast, the Linotype machine—a direct competitor—formed a complete line of type in one bar. Editing...
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    in this form. Univers was rapidly licensed and re-released by Monotype, Linotype, American Type Founders, IBM and others for phototypesetting, for metal...
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    newspaper published in Saguache, Colorado, notable for continuing to use a Linotype to produce each issue long after most newspapers have adopted electronic...
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    technology could also be used in office environments where hot-metal machines (the Linotype, Intertype or Monotype) could not. The use of phototypesetting grew...
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