1) Lead alloy 2) Letter-making machine 3) Linotype machine 4) Mergenthaler patent of 1884 5) Old-style typesetting machine 6) Printing device 7) Printing machine 8) Typesetting machine
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[alloy] Linotype or eutectic alloy is a broad name applied to five categories of lead alloys used in manufacture of type, each with three to five sub-classifications. One alloy is composed of lead with 4% tin and 12% antimony. ...
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• (n.) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being au...
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(trademark), typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line, rather than as individual characters as on the ... [11 related articles]
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Mergenthaler trade name for machine that sets lines of metal type.
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Typesetting process that casts complete lines of hot type, known as slugs.
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Lin'o·type noun [ See
Line ;
Type .]
(Print.) (a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, ...
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A machine for the mechanical setting of type, the brainchild of Ottmar Merganthaler of Baltimore, to whom all praise be given. The Linotype operator used hot metal, melted lead, to create slugs of type by manipulating a keyboard. (courtesy of John E McIntyre)
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Linotype is a form of printing-machine, invented around the end of the 10th century, in which types are discarded, and matrices used instead, these being brought to the proper places by touching corresponding keys, the rows of matrices being then automatically filled with molten metal so as to produce solid bars or lines of type, and then automatic...
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n] - (trade mark) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
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Linotype machine noun a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
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Trademark for a typesetting machine once universally used for newspaper work, which sets complete lines (slugs) of hot-metal type as operators type the copy at a keyboard. It was invented in the USA in 1884 by German-born Ottmar Mergenthaler. It has been replaced by phototypesetting
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