The Linofilm System article is spread over three pages:
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The material on this page is taken from a brochure published in circa 1960 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The brochure showcased the company's latest machines and innovations, including the Linofilm System.
The whole document is available for download, in PDF format, from the Metal Type Library.
The Composer performs all the functions of make-up at the stone … plus the facility of enlarging or reducing any type to exactly the size required with no reference at all to conventional point size
While Linofilm fonts have been taken from Linotype's library of more than a million characters, in each case the Linotype characters have been completely redrawn to take full advantage of the far greater flexibility of photographic composition.
Fine faces for every typographic purpose are now available on Linofilm, and an extensive program is constantly augmenting this type library.
In every instance, the purpose remains the same: to create a final product, on film or photographic paper, that is crisp, clean and black … ideal copy for the engraver or platemaker.
With a versatility unequalled in any phototypesetting equipment in existence, the Linofilm System has a broad range of applications in the field of commercial, newspaper, periodical, book and other classes of printing.
Rather than a competitor, it's a team mate to conventional hot metal processes …a notable companion to the historic machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, the invention which Thomas A Edison justly characterized as "the eighth wonder of the world."
For many decades, graphic arts experts have envisioned a practical phototypesetting method as the machine of the future.
With the perfection of Linofilm, that dream is realized.
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