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linotype machine

Printing machine used in hot type

EntityQ694899

Also known as Linotype

Subclass of: device

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The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type. Linotype became one of the mainstays for typesetting, especially small-size body text for newspapers, magazines, and advertisements from the late 19th century to the 1970s and 1980s, when it was largely replaced by phototypesetting and then digital typesetting.

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Has use: hot metal typesetting
Discovered by: Ottmar Mergenthaler

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