Linotype - A visual Demonstration

[@oaklandtobangkok]

My father was a Linotype operator for over 50 years. He loved his job.

[@dontheshark]

I set type for 27 years, before computers put me out of a job.

[@undeadnightorc]

What a beautiful machine.

[@bkjackson8092]

This is really cool. Thanks!

[@pd4106]

Ha ha, you're wrong Brian, the linotype could produce up to 8 or 9 lines per minute if the operator were quick. The Linotype Elektron (a tts tape operated machine) had a top speed of 15 lines per minute.

[@SHANKAR161192]

Brilliant!

[@vincentvanwyk5522]

What's the machine they use in ulysses by James Joyce in the aeolus chapter?

[@maoripostal2278]

What happened to the lighting in this video?

[@petruhreanu7738]

Am lucrat la linotip in tipografie aproape 30 de ani!

[@oakleysierney1918]

So this type of machine used melted lead to form the letters that would be used to print? Why not just assemble already made letters?

[@brianpkeane4173]

I still think that Margenthawler Linotype was the first computer. It typed out numerial numbers and typeface at a rate of 100 lines per minute. In the early 1900's the racing forms where one of its best customers. Wedding Invitations, Business Cards where its greatest form.

[@abueloraton]

Quite complex.

[@jennhoff03]

So how would the letters get put back in to the machine? Would that still have to be done by hand?

[@SunburntHands]

the letters that come out of the machine are whole lines of type cast to order by the typist. They are melted down and the metal is reused once they are finished with. The letter moulds that the lines of type are cast from stay in the machine and are mechanically sorted back into place I think.

[@doctorshawzy6477]

Very bad grammar in this presentation....especially in the graphics....