. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . TYPESETTING operation of the key-board. The composed matterhas the same appearance as handwork, exceptthat the types are always new and the hnes aremore evenly justified. Corrections are madeby the withdrawal of the wrong character andthe insertion of the right one; the Lanston ma-chine is therefore preferred by some authors forbook-work, because it perixiits the correction oferrors without discarding the whole line. Thistypesetting machine is in use in a large number ofprinting-offices, and it is claimed that it furnishes aletterpress equal
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . TYPESETTING operation of the key-board. The composed matterhas the same appearance as handwork, exceptthat the types are always new and the hnes aremore evenly justified. Corrections are madeby the withdrawal of the wrong character andthe insertion of the right one; the Lanston ma-chine is therefore preferred by some authors forbook-work, because it perixiits the correction oferrors without discarding the whole line. Thistypesetting machine is in use in a large number ofprinting-offices, and it is claimed that it furnishes aletterpress equal to that of the best foundry Mergenthaler, or Linotype, casts the letters 1 . ^ , . , , . The Mergen- properly justified, with spaces between words, in thaierma-sohd bars of the length of Une desired. The com- otypepositor dislodges brass matrices instead of types,and also space-bands. The latter are wedge-shaped, and are released, one by one, at the endof each word. The wedges are about three incheslong; the thin part only at first is i
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