a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal
type produced by such a machine
see origin at Linotype
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His mother was a schoolteacher and his father operated a linotype when he wasn’t unemployed.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
As of 1880, the linotype machine was invented, which also made printing much cheaper and more simple than it had been.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
This room is likely a holdover from the building’s printing plant days — perhaps an office, or a lounge, situated just above the linotype machines.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2018
The generic trappings of such a museum are all there: decrepit typewriters, linotype parts, old broadsheets with toasted edges hollering the death of Stalin or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From New York Times • May 9, 2018
It is here that the papier-m�ch� forms made from the forms you saw in linotype are brought and cast in solid pieces for the presses.
From Paul and the Printing Press by Scott, A. O. (Arthur O.)
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