. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . .The cast line, or linotype, passes between knivesto be finished to exact size, and is then placed onthe galley. The matrices are at once returned totheir channels in the magazine, and the space-bands sHde back into their box ready for immediateuse. During composition on the Linotype, correctionscan be made by changing or transposing any matrixin a line. If a correction is desired after the baris cast, the whole line must be reset. The dis-carded bar is thrown into the melting-pot; thelinotypes are also remelted after they have servedtheir pu
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . .The cast line, or linotype, passes between knivesto be finished to exact size, and is then placed onthe galley. The matrices are at once returned totheir channels in the magazine, and the space-bands sHde back into their box ready for immediateuse. During composition on the Linotype, correctionscan be made by changing or transposing any matrixin a line. If a correction is desired after the baris cast, the whole line must be reset. The dis-carded bar is thrown into the melting-pot; thelinotypes are also remelted after they have servedtheir purpose. In operating the machine, as soonas one line is finished, the compositor starts anotherline; all that he is required to do is to manipulatethe keys and start the fines. The present Linotype is the result of experi-ments begun in 1876. In a crude form it wasdeveloped about 1883, and was put in commercialuse in 1886. It is employed in about thirteenhundred offices in America, including both largeand small newspapers and many book houses^ such. THE mi:k(;i:nthali;ii TViKi^i:TTTi.\G machine (lixutvfe). TYPESETTING 71 as Harper and Brothers and D. Appleton and Com-pany. The Mergenthaler machine is used also bymost of the leading newspapers of Great Britain,quite extensively in Germany and France, andindeed, to some extent, in almost every part ofthe world. In the Boston Public Library, wherethe Linotype is employed to produce card cata-logues, etc., twenty-three languages are printed. Typesetting machines are employed chiefly fornewspaper printing and for work which mustbe done quickly, but many pubHshers also use them;in quahty, the product of the machine is notequal to handwork, although in some instancesonly an experienced eye could detect the differ-ence. The machine reduces the cost of composi-tion,—one of the simpler forms setting types threeor four times as fast as can be done by hand,and the output of the Mergenthaler being six oreight times greater than that of the
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