Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
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.
Here’s a couple of photographs that have been offered for sale on eBay recently. Both seem to fit neatly under the heading of novice linotype operators.
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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.
Many thanks to Tony Bassano for sending in this picture of himself seated at the Intertype that he operated for 23 years.
Says Tony: “Here is a photograph of me circa 1976 setting type on the C4-1 Intertype machine I operated for Califorms Printing Company in San Jose, California for 23 years.
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.”