The Linotype machine (/ ˈlaɪnətaɪp / LYNE-ə-type) is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies.[1]

Linotype, (trademark), typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It was patented in the …

The Linotype, and its later competitors—the Intertype and the Linograph—were typesetting machines. These machines produced complete lines of text cast in hot metal, which gave rise to the name line …

The machine, finished in the summer of 1877, was a typewriter transfer machine for use in the lithography process. The machine itself functioned accurately and rapidly, but the problems occurred …

Jun 8, 2022 · The linotype was the long-awaited machine that would bring speed to a whole new area of the printing process: the composing room. From Gutenberg till the 1880s, letters of type needed to …

Few machines contributed more to the spread of printing than the Linotype Machine, invented in 1884 by Baltimore watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler. Mergenthaler set out to dramatically reduce the time it …

May 31, 2018 · Linotype refers to a machine, power-driven, and manually-operated, that produces composed type on metal bars called slugs. Created and sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype …