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The material on this page is taken from a brochure published in circa 1960 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The brochure showcased the company’s latest machines and innovations, including the Linofilm System.
The basic Linotype, the Blue Streak Model 5 Meteor is the world’s favorite single-magazine line-caster.
The material on this page is taken from a brochure published in circa 1960 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The brochure showcased the company’s latest machines and innovations.
The new, two-magazine Blue Streak Comet Linotype is the fast straight matter machine.
The material on this page is taken from a brochure published in circa 1960 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The brochure showcased the company’s latest machines and innovations, including the Linofilm System.
The full brochure can be downloaded from the Metal Type Library – Typesetting section in PDF format.
One of an occasional series showing photographic postcards that have recently been offered for sale on eBay, as usual with these items, scant details are supplied.
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Spotted for sale on eBay recently, this advertisement, dating from 1909, offers to upgrade the Linotype Model 1 to a two-letter machine.
The advert states: All worn parts replaced by new. Guaranteed to produce as good a slug as from a new machine. All machines sold with new matrices and new spacebands.
Many thanks to George Finn for contributing this article.
Copy (1) prepared on a special typewriter was fed into the machine, guided by sprocket holes each side of the sheet, similar to continuous stationery.
This is the first such machine that actually operated.
The type was arranged in cells around the circumference of a horizontal wheel. As the wheel revolved, several receivers also started to rotate. The desired type was picked up and dropped in proper order in a line.
Ralf Hermann sent in these pictures of a Linotype Europa, which was featured in the German publication, Linotype Post, Issue 65, dated March 1966.
The article said that this new model was based on the existing four-magazine mixing model 10a IV.
This item was recently offered for sale on eBay.
Strong claims here for the Intertype and an illustration of what appears to be a Model A machine.
This illustrated advertising postcard was recently offered for sale on eBay.
Under the 1886 illustration of a rather shabby-looking Blower it states: “One face, one body, one measure.”