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Meanings of linotype in English
A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal.
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Examples for "Linotype machine"
Examples for "Linotype machine"
1
The Mergenthaler Linotype machine appeared in crude form about 1886.
2
He even had an old Linotype machine dominating one corner, as well as drum scanners, laminating machines, and a darkroom.
3
The second and fourth selections deal with kindred aspects of modern industry-themanufacture of paper and the Linotype machine, by which it is used.
4
Mr. Good met Greeley once and Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine.
5
He could manipulate a linotype machine (that almost humanly intelligent piece of mechanism).
Usage of linotype in English
1
Mr. Good met Greeley once and Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine.
2
Today he sits in an easy backed chair and uses a linotype.
3
After the war, he became a linotype operator, and sang in a choir.
4
He could manipulate a linotype machine (that almost humanly intelligent piece of mechanism).
5
Shortly after noon a linotype operator came to me with his hands full of copy.
6
Plates, linotype, lock-up, make-ready, will cost as much for one magazine as for one thousand.
7
The linotype machines, now used in all large printing establishments, have increased the demand for lead.
8
Wilbur said "Possibly not," though he knew he would now loathe the linotype forever.
9
If the book is set in linotype, the make-up will have been unable to make these changes.
10
I have not experience as linotype operator, but can fill any other place in a printing office.
11
When the linotype machines came in I was one of the men to go out, just as he did.
12
We possess linotype machines and rotary presses and we can print a new book in a couple of days.
13
Rumors came of the Rogers machine and the Thorne machine and the Mergenthaler linotype, but Mark Twain only smiled.
14
That looks like the combined mince-pie nightmares of a whole flock of linotype operators, pipe-organists, and hard-boiled radio hams!
15
In 1880 the different offices introduced stereotyping, and in 1892 linotype type-setting machines were installed.
16
This is especially marked in rapid color-printing, and in the successors of inadequate typesetting-machines-inthe linotype, the monotype, the typograph, etc.
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