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Linotype machine

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Noun1.Linotype machine - a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metalLinotype machine - a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
Linotype
typesetting machine - a printer that sets textual material in type
trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product
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We were shown the towering Linotype machines, whose operators sat at keyboards typing at incredible speeds the items for the next editions, which they read from papers held in clips close to hand.
Letter: Post memories by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Around the turn of the century, compositors who set up the print, arrived for work in bowler hats and chewed tobacco or camomile at their linotype machines because smoking was forbidden.
Snapshots of history by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
He retired in March after a 53-year newspaper career that began with melting lead for Linotype machines in 1949, but former Morning News editor Jim Morriss continues to win awards.
Morriss gets Deane. (Outtakes) by Holcombe, Carl D. / Arkansas Business
 
 
 
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