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	The Linotype in England
		It is not commonly known that the initial effort which in due course led up to the invention of the Linotype as we know it to-day was an inspiration which occurred to five shorthand writers in 1876, as a result of a conversation between them in the intervals of their verbatim reporting.
		The Linotype is not a type-setting machine in the usual sense of the word; it does not compose or arrange types, but produces lines of metal, known as slugs, which can be used for direct printing, or, as in newspaper work, for making papier-mâche matrices from which stereotype plates are produced.
		As is well known, the original Linotype machine has been steadily developed since it was first introduced, and a large number of changes and additions have been made to it, to meet the demands of the printer which economic conditions constantly bring about.
	digilander.libero.it /linotype/england.htm (3282 words)

	The Linotype
		As the name implies, the Linotype is a machine that produces a solid "line of type." Introduced about 1886, it was used for generations by newspapers and general printers.
		It is a one-man machine: the operator sits in front with the copy to be set at the top of the keyboard.
		After the casting, they are taken first vertically by means of the first elevator and then laterally until the teeth of the matrices engage the ribs of a carrier bar attached to the second elevator lever.
	www.woodsidepress.com /LINOTYPE.HTML (823 words)

	General Maintenance Part III - Casting
		On the later model Linotypes the knife wiper is operated from the first elevator slide, and at the top of the slide there is an adjustable plunger which is used to maintain a uniform stroke of the wiper regardless of the thickness of the slug being cast.
		On the older model machines the duplex rail is made with two pins on its lower surface, and these slide in grooves cut in the lower cap, the pins acting as a stop when the springs force it forward.
		The machine will now be in position so that the back end of the shaft may be pried forward slightly to start it and the opposite end will then protrude enough to allow the shaft to be wedged out with a large screwdriver or similar tool.
	www.linotype.org /OnLineDocs/GenMaint/GMCasting.html (13585 words)

	Etherington & Roberts. Dictionary--linotype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The machine holds a number of single matrices in a magazine, which are released as the keyboard is operated, and are assembled in proper sequence with appropriate spaces separating the words.
		Linotype is one of the typecasting machines used by library binders.
		The linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler and has been in use since 1890.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /don/dt/dt2094.html (95 words)

	The Printer (Printing - Newspapers in Colonial US, Linotype, 21st Cent Printing
		When the Linotype operator hit a key on the keyboard (the letter T, for example), the keystroke told the machine to retrieve the letter T mold.
		The use of the loud, complex Linotype machine required an operator who was mechanically inclined as well as good with details.
		To be an effective Linotype operator, the person had to have a strong background in the English language and a thorough knowledge of English grammar.
	www.peachtree-online.com /printer/printing4.htm (905 words)

	x-height: FontHaus' Online Magazine : Linotype Library
		Since May 1st 1997 Linotype Library - as a division of the Heidelberg Group - is a legally independant company with more than 110 years of heritage.
		The machine is called “Blower”, later it is renamed “Linotype” (short for “Line of type”).
		Mergenthaler Casting Machines in Berlin and D. Stempel in Frankfurt sign a contract to produce typefaces for Linotype.
	www.fonthaus.com /xheight/linotype.cfm (1623 words)

	blue oak bindery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although the Linotype is complex machine that needs skill and care in operation, it is designed to be run by a single operator.
		Working with a linotype machine is like visiting the printer's version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
		Far left: the molten metal used for casting the linotype is heated to a temperature as high as 535 degrees fahrenheit.
	www.blueoakbindery.com /other02.html (257 words)

	creativepro.com - Linotype Pays Tribute to its Home Town
		Linotype Library is pleased to sponsor this event, which allows it to celebrate a homecoming of sorts.
		Linotype was born and with it, a new age for printed communication.
		Linotype is the source of many of the most popular typefaces in the world.
	www.creativepro.com /story/news/23187.html (363 words)

	Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press
		Reid sent Thomas Miller, his best machine operator, to Baltimore, to work on the machine for a week, but he was constantly interrupted by the draughtsman and by Mergenthaler making little changes as he observed a printer working the machine.
		From the report sent to Mr Smith, I gather that one of these machines might now be ready for work if the course strongly argued last February had been taken and the preparation of matrices had then been begun by the old electrotyping process.
		This machine, the property of the National Typographic Co and the invention of Ottmar Mergenthaler, is not yet on the market, and is still being perfected.
	www.oakknoll.com /bookexcerpt.php?booknr=56711 (2341 words)

	My Linotypes
		I was amazed that in the early years of the 20th century, there was a machine with a keyboard which was capable of casting in lead type, whatever was typed on the keyboard.
		When the machine was initially positioned in the window twelve years earlier, the plate glass window was removed and the linotype was moved on a pallet fork and shoved into the window opening.
		On inspection I discovered that someone maintaining the machine in the past rather than adjusting the hardened shoes on the cam as is called for in the instructions, had obtained the proper clearance by inserting a shim under one hardened face on the square block.
	www.linotype.org /MyLinotype/MyLinotype.html (3561 words)

	Nostalgia
		Non vidi mai la fiamma nella macchina, e nessuna delle Linotype che ho potuto vedere, da quando crebbi abbastanza da poterci guardar dentro, avevano fiamme per tenere in fusione il metallo dei caratteri, ma non ditemi che non c’è del fuoco nel cuore di ogni Linotype.
		Linotypes were the massive, grimy, clattering machines at which people called printers sat to set type.
		It was the noise of a linotype that led me to a newspaper plant not far from the Baptistery.
	digilander.libero.it /linotype/nostalgia.htm (3523 words)

	Linotype machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Linotype (Deutsches Museum) Textblock - Print side (Setting error: Sefan instead of Stefan) Textblock, side view In printing, the Linotype machine (pronounced "LINEotype" []) uses a 90-character keyboard to create an entire line of metal type at once.
		The machine poured molten type metal, which is a lead alloy, into the molds, producing a complete line of type in reverse, so it would read properly when used to transfer ink onto paper.
		The Linotype may be best remembered for the layout of its keyboard, which had letters arranged in decreasing order of frequency in everyday English.
	linotype-machine.iqnaut.net (254 words)

	Linotype machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The complexity of a Linotype machine was necessary not just so that it would place letter molds in the proper place as the operator typed on the keyboard, but so it could return the molds to the proper place in preparation for their next usage.
		The Linotype machine used a clever design of coded notches on each letter mold, rather like the indentations on a key which make it fit a lock, so they would slide back into the proper spot when replaced.
		In addition, a Linotype machine could produce "justified" type (where the spaces on the lines are expanded so that the text fills the line to the right-hand margin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linotype_machine (645 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Ottmar Mergenthaler's invention of the linotype composing machine in 1886 is regarded as the greatest advance in printing since the development of moveable type 400 years earlier.
		Mergenthaler's machine enabled one operator to be machinist, type-setter, justifier, typefounder, and type-distributor.
		Since the machine was first used in 1886 by the New York Tribune, great improvements on its design have been made.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/1_1_6_detail.asp?vInventorID=102 (176 words)

	No. 1372: The Paige Compositor
		Linotype operators set type five times faster than hand typesetters could.
		By then, Linotype machines had been on the market for three years.
		So his Linotype was simpler, cheaper, easier to maintain, and less liable to break down.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1372.htm (506 words)

	The Paige Typesetting Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Believing that there were millions in those prospects, he bought the rights to the machine outright in 1889, the same year the Yankee was published; within a few more years, the machine, as chief among a series of bad speculations, bankrupted him.
		At the height of its development, the Paige machine had over 18,000 separate parts, and was designed (with the help of one operator at the keyboard) to set over 8000 ems an hour.
		Before it could be made to work consistently, however, the Linotype machine swept the market MT had hoped to corner.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/yankee/cymach6.html (159 words)

	Linotype machine saved from scrape heap to live again! -- Dave's Linotype Website - Linotype Forum
		PA to purchase a Model 8 Linotype Machine (which is in excellent condition) that was destine for the scrape yard, if it's owner couldn't find a new home for it.
		He got the lead for this machine from a printer down in Tennesse who's sole mission is to save as many linotype machines from death as he can.
		He uses the machine to cast linotype slugs used for imprinting carbon-leaf forms on a Heidelburg Windmill Press.
	www.voy.com /32955/65.html (247 words)

	OSCN Found Document:INTERTYPE CORP. v. STROSNIDER
		The defendant refused to deliver the machine to the plaintiff, and this action was filed by plaintiff for possession of the machine.
		Second, that there was a substitution of the machine purchased by Armstrong to the plaintiff in place of the original machine covered by the mortgage held by the bank.
		The intention of Armstrong that the equity in the new machine should be substituted for the machine covered by the mortgage is not sufficient to make a contract of substitution.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=36032 (1603 words)

	Computer to Monotype caster-Articles
		The machine was later modified and improved upon by Frank H. Pierpont of the Monotype Corporation Ltd. Without the innovation of Benton, the realization of mechanical typesetting, with its heavy demands for multiple matrices, would have been held back.
		Square-Base Model 1 Linotype, a machine that marked the beginning of the ’modern’ line-caster.
		The line drawing of the machine accompanying the text (based on a photograph in the American source) shows a sprawling device that was slow and unwieldy.
	www.letterpress.ch /SPIPCASTER/article.php3?id_article=1 (583 words)

	WOLves: Linotype Inventor
		His invention, the linotype machine, allowed one person to set type for printing by simply pressing keys on a keyboard bypassing four different operations at much greater speeds.
		Historians say his machine was the greatest advance in printing since the development of moveable type 400 years earlier.
		The linotype machine was first used in 1886 by the New York Tribune.
	wolves.typepad.com /wolves/2005/05/linotype_invent.html (167 words)

	Linotype University IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Linotype University IV will be held at the Working Linotype Museum, at 333 Park Avenue, on the campus of Pry Plastics, Inc. Denmark is in the very southeast corner of the state of Iowa, eight miles from the Mississippi River and about 30 miles from Missouri.
		Other machines on the property are model 8, 14, 15, 16, 31 with a 42 pica mold wheel, G 4 + 4, F 4 + triangle four, B 2 Intertypes,a model K and a model L Linotype and more Linotype Elektrons.
		The Sun Dance and Southern Railroad is on the Linotype University campus, and includes an ex-Rock Island Railroad #348 diesel, mechanical, switcher locomotive and a century old, cupola end, wooden red caboose.
	www.linotypeuniversity.com (1489 words)

	Burleson-Crowley Connection - Local News
		A Linotype (pronounced “line-o-type”) is described as a keyboard-operated newspaper typesetting machine that uses circulating matrices (letters on the side of a metal tab) and produces each line of type in the form of a solid metal slug.
		Plans are under way for the machine to be restored to near-original appearance, with the hope of placing it somewhere close to its last home at the Interurban Visitors Center on Ellison Street.
		Griffith isn’t certain if the Linotype will be housed outside in a special building or with a less-formal covering, but in all likelihood, it will be placed on the east side of the center.
	www.burlesoncrowley.com /publish/printer_629.shtml (655 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The linotype machine is a wonderful mechanism which not only sets the type as an operator presses down "typewriter" keys, but casts the matter in solid lines of metal, just the width required for the page or column.
		The monotype differs from the linotype in that it gives the letters of type separately while the linotype gives a line of type, all in one piece.
		These may be in separate rooms, for the type is not cast into metal on the machine that sets it, as in the case of the linotype.
	www.coathook.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /lino/linomono.htm (765 words)

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : L
		Linotype or Linotype machine A typesetting machine invented by Otto Merganthaler in the late 1800's which casts one row of type as a single piece (« line - of - type »).
		Linotype was bought by Hell in the 1980's (a manufacturer of printing presses and imagesetters), and Linotype-Hell was bought by Heidelberg (another manuafacturer of well-received color printing presses) in the 1990's.
		Linotype was also well known as the introducing the first PostScript imagesetter in the mid 1980's, the Linotronic L100, during the early days of desktop publishing.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/l.htm (4115 words)

	linotype.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But with the advent of the Linotype, that was to change quickly, and within 20 years Linotypes were in use in every state.
		The Linotype operator's key strokes told the machine which letter molds to retrieve from the magazines and the machine assembled a row of metal molds, or matrices, that contained imprints of those characters.
		Then, the machine poured molten lead into the matrices and the result was a complete line of newspaper type, but in reverse, so that it would read properly when it transferred ink to the page.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/journalism/lino.html (583 words)

	Linotype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Linotype GmbH, the German office of the company, was to become the dominant offshoot.
		The modern Linotype assets consist of an extensive library of type designs and trademarks, many the result of its large number of acquisitions, which it exploits by manufacturing digital typefaces.
		Linotype has also introduced FontExplorer X for Mac OS X. It's a well reviewed font manager that allows users to browse and purchase new fonts within the program — much like howiTunes and the iTunes Music Store work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linotype (521 words)

	ASME Celebrates its 125th Anniversary: Landmarks 2005: Otto Merganthaler's Square-base Linotype at the International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With each keystroke, the machine released a brass matrix (or mold) for that letter or a blank band for a space, and it arranged the letters and spaces into a justified line.
		Next the machine automatically tapped a reservoir of molten pot metal (heated to 550 ° F, 288 ° C) to cast a slug from the justified line of matrices, producing a single line of type — hence the machine's name.
		But the machine was reliable and durable, and it enabled a five-fold increase in the speed of composition while offering other sizeable economies.
	anniversary.asme.org /2005landmarks4.shtml (611 words)

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