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Linotype Printing.|ˈlaɪnətaɪp|
[= line o' type.]
The proprietary name of a composing machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–99) that sets type line by line (see quot. 1892). Also attrib.
1888[First used in] Specif. U.S. Patent No. 393846, 4 Dec. 1889Times (weekly ed.) 28 June 20/1 The linotype..has been adopted in the offices of several American newspapers. 1892A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxxii. 318 The Linotype..sets up not types, but type-matrices, and then, when a line is complete, passes the matrices on to a foundry which forms part of the apparatus, and a full line is cast... Distribution is avoided. The matter once used..is returned to the metal pot and melted ready for fresh work... The advantages of the machine are its great speed and the economy effected by melting instead of distributing. A disadvantage is the fact that..there is no mode of correction other than to reset the whole line... Still,..the machine has decided merits. It is in use in many newspaper offices. Ibid. (Advt.), The result of a contest between four American Composing Machines..showed that on the Linotype the operator averaged 12,250 Ens an Hour, corrected matter. 1899Appleton's Ann. Cycl. 623 In 1880 he [Mergenthaler] made a complete change of system, and adopted the plan that he brought to perfection in the linotype. 1902A. W. Bickerton (title) The perils of a pioneer: a protest in linotype proof. 1903Stationer, Printer & Fancy Trades' Reg. 1 Aug. 364/2 At present linotype operators work on piece, that is to say, they are paid according to the work they do. 1926Brit. Gaz. 12 May 2/2 The Thanet Advertiser, Ramsgate, reports that its linotype operators have returned to work. 1946A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding iii. 33/1 As the name implies, the Linotype..is a slug-casting machine. Introduced about 1886 it is now used in practically every newspaper office and also in many general printing offices. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xi. 211 Comrade Rappaport, a linotype operator from L'Humanité. 1963W. Clowes Guide to Printing iii. 22 The ‘Linotype’ machine incorporates both keyboard and caster. 1973S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) iv. 68 The product of the Linotype is not a line of separate letters, but a solid metal strip, or ‘slug’, bearing on one of the long edges the characters that go to make up the whole line. 1974Northern Times (Golspie, Sutherland) 21 June 5/2 His son..was a Linotype Operator on the ‘N. T.’ [sc. Northern Times].
Hence ˈlinotyped ppl. a., of type set in this way; ˈlinotyper, ˈlinotypist, one who uses a linotype; ˈlinotyping vbl. n., the process of setting type by the use of this machine.
1895Daily News 26 Nov. 10/5 Linotypist wants day work. 1896Peterson Mag. VI. 305/1 Stenographers, typewriters, compositors, and linotypers. 1902U.S. Census Bull. No. 242. 73 A new departure in the art of linotyping. 1908Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 7/2 The linotyped calumny of millionaire journalism. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed vii. 83 The little knot of linotypers and helpers..now listened. |