Linotype machine - Wikipedia
The Linotype machine (/ ˈ l aɪ n ə t aɪ p / 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] It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use.
Typesetting machine | Letterpress, Linotype & Monotype
Typesetting machine, basic element in modern letterpress printing. The problem of mechanizing typesetting was solved in the 19th century by devising machines that could cast type from matrices, or molds. The first to be successful was that of Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born American inventor,
Typesetting - Wikipedia
Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols). [1]
Hot metal typesetting - Wikipedia
In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing. This method injects molten type metal into a mold that has the shape of one or more glyphs .
The Linotype: The Machine that Revolutionized Movable Type
2022年6月8日 · Throughout the 1800s, printing presses had advanced to reach incredible speeds, but typesetting remained a slow process. The linotype was the long-awaited machine that would bring speed to a whole new area of the printing process: the composing room.
Linotype | Printing, Typesetting, Monotype | Britannica
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 United States in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
Linotype and Intertype - Letterpress Commons
The Linotype is considered to be the first commercially successful automated typesetting machine. While the development of the machine was iterative, 1885 is given as the invention date for the original machine, and in fact the same basic principles were used in all subsequent Linotype and Intertype models.
1895 Linotype — International Printing Museum
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 in attempting to transfer the image to the lithographic stone for printing.
Monotype | Printing, Typesetting, Typesetter | Britannica
Monotype, (trademark), in commercial printing, typesetting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston in 1885 that produces type in individual characters, unlike Linotype, which sets type an entire line at a time. A Monotype machine consists of a 120-key …
The Paige Typesetting Machine
MT first heard about James Paige and his automatic typesetting machine in 1880, at which time he invested $5000 in its prospects. By 1887 he'd invested a total of $50,000, and as principal investor was putting about $3000 a month into its promise to set type more efficiently and less expensively than merely human compositors or any of its ...