For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line. |
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Having qualified as a compositor he later became a linotype operator. |
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At my first job in New York I had an IBM Selectric and carbon paper for copies, and we sent books to be typeset on big linotype machines in Pennsylvania. |
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In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe. |
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Here you can buy a copy of the vivid Wapping: The Great Printing Dispute by linotype operator John Throw. |
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In other areas visitors can find out how a lift bridge functions, or on what principles a linotype machine in a traditional printing shop works. |
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Matrices for intertype, linotype and Ludlow slugs must meet the specific dimensions within a very narrow limit. |
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Bill was a first-rate linotype operator who, after work, would go to a beerhouse and give what he called a setting. |
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That's the way it's always been: from sheet-fed to rotary presses, linotype machines to desktop publishing, black and white to color, and now paper to electrons. |
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He became a linotype operator and ultimately worked on Santiago newspapers and in the national library, and from 1931 he was head of the University of Chile Press. |
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No more proofreaders,, and no more linotype machines spitting out those slugs of hot lead for assembling in the pages. |
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With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline, the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work. |
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The text of this book was set in Linotype Sabon, named after the type founder, Jacques Sabon. |
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In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold. |
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This was in the days of hot metal Linotype when, to remove a comma at page-proof stage, was a costly business. |
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Linotype redrew and extended the family in the 1980s for use in phototypesetters, introducing the typeface as Neue Helvetica. |
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Gill was commissioned to develop a typeface with the number of allographs limited to what could be used on Monotype or Linotype machines. |
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