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All-Purpose Linotype

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  • printing press
    In printing: Mechanical composition: slugcasting typesetters

    The All-Purpose Linotype is a combination manual and automatic machine that retains only the casting part of the Linotype. Special matrices, solidly rectangular or with notches, ears, and heels, are assembled by hand in a composing stick. Justification is done with blank matrices of various sizes.…

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