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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.
Having qualified as a compositor he later became a linotype operator.
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.
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.
Here you can buy a copy of the vivid Wapping: The Great Printing Dispute by linotype operator John Throw.
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.
Matrices for intertype, linotype and Ludlow slugs must meet the specific dimensions within a very narrow limit.
Bill was a first-rate linotype operator who, after work, would go to a beerhouse and give what he called a setting.
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.
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.
No more proofreaders,, and no more linotype machines spitting out those slugs of hot lead for assembling in the pages.
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.
The text of this book was set in Linotype Sabon, named after the type founder, Jacques Sabon.
In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold.
This was in the days of hot metal Linotype when, to remove a comma at page-proof stage, was a costly business.
Linotype redrew and extended the family in the 1980s for use in phototypesetters, introducing the typeface as Neue Helvetica.
Gill was commissioned to develop a typeface with the number of allographs limited to what could be used on Monotype or Linotype machines.
Examples from Classical Literature
The text of REW was first produced by a Mergenthaler linotype, and since then things have changed.
The linotype and monotype machines, uncanny in their operations, have also come into common practice.
The monotype, like the Linotype, aims at speed in composition, but in its mechanism it differs essentially from the linotype.
This machine is called a linotype because it casts a whole line of type at a time.
The introduction of the linotype machine, of which there are three in this establishment.
If the book is set in linotype, the make-up will have been unable to make these changes.
What are the essential differences between a Monotype and a linotype?
The text of this book was set on the linotype in Baskerville.
There are even a few who are allowed to telephone their news directly to a swift linotype operator, who clicks it into type on his machine, without the scratch of a pencil.
He could operate a linotype or act as managing editor with equal ease.
Sam Pickering's linotype had first revealed his gift for machinery.
He would be slave to no linotype until they were kept in the open.
As you know, if a linotype operator is ill, his machine goes untouched.
These machines are called respectively the linotype and Monotype.
Until 1984 he set the hot lead of the Linotype, but then Bowne had to modernize to remain competitive in the printing market.
At the behest of his Linotype teacher in 1930, he began to work at The Belnamos newspaper in Belmont Shore for experience.
Linotype GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc, a provider of text imaging solutions.
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