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Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935 By AE Foster - State Library of New South Wales, PXE 1103/Vol. 3/Boxes 1-3, Public Domain
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Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935 By AE Foster - State Library of New South Wales, PXE 1103/Vol. 3/Boxes 1-3, Public Domain
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Typography Tuesday
Today we present some fancy Caslon capitals, borders, and ornaments from The Manual of Linotype Typography, printed by the Plimpton Press for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. William Caslon (1692-1766) famously introduced the first superior British Roman font in his 1734 specimen sheet. Various iterations of the Caslon typefounding house persisted until the 1930s when it was acquired by Stephenson Blake, but the Caslon Roman typeface remains the classic British font.
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Making linotypes with @leyendyker. It’s going alright. Leyendyker provided the materials as well as snacks 😊
Elektron
Dating to the 1960s (probably 1962), this film promotes "The Elektron", an advanced, fully automated type-setting machine designed to significantly improve speed and efficiency in the printing industry. The Elektron was a type of Linotype, or a "line casting" machine , used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. As the film shows, by utilizing continuous assembly through straight-line delivery, the Elektron eliminates the stop-and-go mechanics of traditional machines, allowing it to set 15 lines per minute compared to the 12 lines per minute of older models. Elektron's innovations include a hydraulic justification system, streamlined mat distribution, and reduced wear on components, all contributing to its long-lasting performance. The machine's design also features enhanced cam profiles, electromagnetic clutch systems, and pre-wired electrical components, making it easier to operate and maintain. Overall, the Elektron represents a major leap in hot metal line casting, providing faster, more efficient, and less maintenance-intensive production for the printing industry.
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Typography Tuesday
Today we present so-called Benedictine capitals, borders, and ornaments from The Manual of Linotype Typography, printed by the Plimpton Press for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. The Benedictine typeface family is a revival of a 15th-century type used by Bolognese printer Plato de Benedictis, redesigned by Joseph E. Hill for Linotype in 1915.
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george w. jones 2
opening & laid-in note from the luxurious specimen of linotype granjon, Robert Granjon: Sixteenth Century Type Founder and Printer [mergenthaler linotype, co., brooklyn, 1931], printed by george w. jones [at the sign of the dolphin in gough square, london england].
linotype granjon is linotype’s 1924 «garamond» revival, adapted by george w. jones. a reviewer writes: «The fourteen-point, being nearest in size to the face which served as a model (a roman used by Jean Poupy in Borchier’s Historia Ecclesiastica, Paris 1582), is the most successful … There is an unpretentious italic with rather unhappy swash capitals, and several poorly designed lower-case characters.» [The Fleuron vol. v, cup, 1926, p.195.] pity we are not given the model for the italic.
I won a flat of random things at this last weekend’s North Star Auction, but mostly for this heavy gem from bygone printing days — a Castomatic Linotype slug of type metal, which is an alloy of lead, antimony and tin. This means I should probably wash my hands.