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 companies.[1]

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 was patented in the …

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 occurred …

The Linotype is a typecasting machine that was commonly in use from 1884 up to the 1980's for the production of lengthy texts, such as in books or newspapers. The machine was invented by Ottmar …

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 type needed to …

Few machines contributed more to the spread of printing than the Linotype Machine, invented in 1884 by Baltimore watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler. Mergenthaler set out to dramatically reduce the time it …

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 typeface or forme, …

Except in general principles, this machine was wholly unlike any other Linotype. It was designed for small newspaper offices, first as a one-letter machine and later two-letter.

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.

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 …