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4 unusual facts about Mergenthaler Linotype Company


Linotype

Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a US type foundry that produced the Linotype machine

Mergenthaler

Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a US corporation founded in 1866 to market the Linotype machine

Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The following month certain divisions of Linotype-Hell AG were spun off into new companies, one of which was Linotype Library GmbH with headquarters at Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the machine that casts metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.


Fonderie Olive

In 1978 the foundry was acquired by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company which transferred photocomposition rights for all faces to Haas.

Linotronic

Manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and popularized by the Adobe RIP, enabling PostScript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter.


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