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An era ends in February when production of Linotype machines ceases in the United States. The development of computerdirected photographic and electronic printing equipment has led ttFlfewer orders for the machine that once revolutionized printing. As an example, type being set for this paper has advanced from linotype through three separate kinds of electronic equipment since 1962. The lines you are reading now are set on computerdirected photographic machines.
Invented by a German immigrant in 1884, the Linotype had as great an impact on the printed word as did Gutenberg’s movable type nearly 500 years earlier. Spurred Publishing
Linotype machines helped make mass circulation newspapers possible, the National Geographic Society says. They spurred a dramatic growth of publishing, with an accompanying rise in literacy.
For centuries, the Chinese had used wooden type. In most of the world, however, books were copied individually by scribes until Johann Gutenberg unveiled
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