{"id":42858,"date":"2022-09-19T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=42858"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T07:41:12","slug":"continenta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/german-new-line-linotypes\/continenta\/","title":{"rendered":"Continenta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/gen\/newline2.jpg\" alt=\"Linotype Continenta\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Continenta could be had as a manually-operated machine offering 28\/34\/42 Cicero line widths (30\/36\/42em equivalents) or as a tape-operated version able to cast at speeds of 10 to 15 lines per minute. Weight: 1850kg.<\/p>\n<p>It was a two-magazine mixer utilising standard 90-channel magazines and had a mould wheel with four water-cooled moulds. Hydraquadder and Mohr saw could be added as extras to the basic specification and the machine shown in the colour illustration is thus equipped.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously intended as a high-speed basic text setter when running on tape, the addition of mixing capability offered the useful additional capability of setting classified advertising in small text sizes with semi-display lines being able to be introduced\u2014say 5\u00bdpt\/12pt. German Linotype had introduced many imaginative computer programs allowing such operations to be carried out using such a machine.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/newline\/continenta.jpeg\" alt=\"Linotype Continenta (side view)\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Continenta could be had as a manually-operated machine offering 28\/34\/42 Cicero line widths (30\/36\/42em equivalents) or as a tape-operated version able to cast at speeds of 10 to 15 lines per minute. Weight: 1850kg. It was a two-magazine mixer utilising standard 90-channel magazines and had a mould wheel with four water-cooled moulds. 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