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Linotype

Typesetting equipment manufacturer

Entitytype foundry private pressQ2075244

Also known as Linotype · Mergenthaler Linotype Co. · Linotype-Bibliothek · Mergenthaler Linotype Company

Instance of: type foundry
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1.Stated in The Elements of Typographic Style
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, private press
Country: Germany
, United States
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1.id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83046827
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Founded: 1886
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1.Stated in The Elements of Typographic Style
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, 1895
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1.id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83046827
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Website: linotype.com

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The Mergenthaler Linotype Company was a company founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It became the world's leading manufacturer of newspaper and book typesetting equipment. Its main competitor was the American Intertype Corporation and the British-American Monotype Corporation.

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Headquarters: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Brooklyn
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1.id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83046827
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Legal form: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Product or material produced: linotype machine
Has works in the collection: Harold B. Lee Library
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1.lib.byu.edu/search/byu/record/cat.2220656.item.31197001885257
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Industry: printing

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