. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . or. The machine is operated in the samemanner as a typewriter: when the compositorstrikes a certain letter on the key-board, the cor-responding character falls in position. Thismachine can only set types in a continuous line;another operator is required to justify them,or make them up in lines of uniform length. TheMcMillan machine has a mated justifying appa-ratus, but the distributer is a distinct machine was used successfully for some timein the office of the New York Sun. All the simpler forms of typesetting machineshave been
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . or. The machine is operated in the samemanner as a typewriter: when the compositorstrikes a certain letter on the key-board, the cor-responding character falls in position. Thismachine can only set types in a continuous line;another operator is required to justify them,or make them up in lines of uniform length. TheMcMillan machine has a mated justifying appa-ratus, but the distributer is a distinct machine was used successfully for some timein the office of the New York Sun. All the simpler forms of typesetting machineshave been generally superseded by those in whichcomposition, casting, and distribution are com-bined in one machine. The Lanston machine, which went into com-TheLanston niercial use about 1899, both casts and sets indi-vidual type. It permits the free and equal use ofall the upper and lower case characters; these itcasts and composes in justified Hues by a singleautomatic operation, which is controlled by aperforated paper ribbon, the product of the manual.
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