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MODELS 29 AND 30 are the successors in the mixing-machine field to Models 25 and 26.
Carrying up to four main magazines – and on the Model 30, as many as four auxiliary magazines also – they afford continuous mixed composition from, and continuous distribution to, adjacent pairs of magazines.
THIS MACHINE is the same as Model 27 with the addition of one, two or three wide 34-channel auxiliary magazines, which enable it to carry more faces and slightly larger faces than even the Model 27.
Wide 36 point and condensed faces up to 60 point can be run, with the caps in an auxiliary and the lower case in the cap side of one of the main magazines.
THE ADDITION of two 34-channel extra wide auxiliary magazines makes a Model 26 of the 25.
Matrices from these two magazines can be freely mixed with each other and with those from either of the two main magazines.
THE ADVANTAGES of multiple distribution are not confined to work on which it is desired to mix matrices from various magazines.
Multiple distribution means that any character in the machine is available at once; that you can shift from one magazine to the other or set a correction line from either, without even waiting for the last line to distribute.
THIS MACHINE is a Model 8 plus the wide auxiliary magazines of 34 channels.
The auxiliary features of the Linotype gives the machine a considerably wider range of usefulness: each magazine will accommodate a full alphabet of characters and figures of any size up to and including extended 36 point, and medium condensed faces up to 60 point.
FOR MIXED composition involving a large number of faces, Model 9 is in a class by itself.
Its four magazines give the operator a range of eight complete faces in four sizes, all immediately available.
EQUIPPED with either one, two or three magazines, the Model 8 is a popular machine for general composition.
When originally equipped as a single-magazine machine it can be easily converted into a two- or three-magazine machine by the addition of the necessary parts.
Illustrations and machine descriptions of Models 8 to 26 are from a pamphlet called “Linotype Flexibility” published by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1930. Models 28 to 32 from “Linotype Machine Principles” published in 1940.
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The model 6 was specially designed for the production of work requiring a variety of type faces mixed in one and the same line, such as catalogues, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, etc.
It is equipped with four main magazines and two distributors.