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- Methods of licensing digital fonts for making type caster matrixes
... presses. Many matrix sets could be machined. 2: A Monotype SuperCaster makes use of loose matrixes to cast loose type that can be ...
Forum topic - KalleP - 21 Sep 2007 - 1:49pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Nicholas Jenson, 1475; Another possible Contextual Alternative example?
... for n, and the other way round too I think, so maybe the caster was still at work and had not produced enough sorts to be used for the ... like something that would have been especially likely in Monotype shops. early printing was done on early printing was done on ...
Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 27 Mar 2008 - 6:14pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- Why Bembo Sucks
... I think about a lot lately: it’s time to bring back the Monotype. >it’s time to bring back >it’s time to bring back ... matrix case and keybars to yield the short-tail R on the caster. Merely competent shops did no such alterations. There’s ...
Forum topic - kris - 24 Jan 2008 - 5:57pm - 82 comments - 0 attachments
- Lanston Type Co.
... typesetting device. Later refinements led to the Monotype casting machine and the emergence of the Lanston Monotype Company as ... type supply companies in the world. The Monotype caster was revolutionary and along with other automated typesetting machines ...
Wiki - James Grieshaber - 6 Sep 2005 - 12:46pm - 0 comments
- How many of you own metal types?
... I’d feel the same seeing my types chugging out of a Monotype caster. Part of my fascination is seeing the 3 types that Rudolf Koch cut ...
Forum topic - David R - 28 Nov 2007 - 1:40am - 49 comments - 0 attachments
- The @ character in metal typesetting
... This ’at’ starts to appears in the Monotype pattern C (book and news) matrix case. English-standard character set ... If someone is interested.. Georg You have a caster? hhp You have a caster? hhp hrant, I am dealer of the ...
Forum topic - cedilla - 16 Nov 2005 - 5:45pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments
- Bottle-arsed type?
... as “bottle-ASSED type.” Even the best Monotype caster operators could not always avoid casting some bottle-assed/arsed type. I ... more often than I would have liked. I never operated a Monotype caster, so I cannot give a good explanation about why type may come ...
Forum topic - sii - 8 Oct 2007 - 3:10pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Looking for Vogue
... version of Futura) also had an alternate two-story a. Monotype also had a Kabel look-alike called Sans Serif that had alternates to ... require a specialized hand-mould, or an adapted Monotype caster... As I’ve posted elsewhere, As I’ve posted elsewhere, ...
Forum topic - bshaykin - 25 Jul 2003 - 6:47pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments
- Best way to preserve old metal type?
... I use bees wax when casting type on the Thompson Caster. It makes a great mold lubricant and gives the type a pleasant smelling ... to melt beeswax candle into the mold of the other two (Monotype) casters, but the Thompson mold is very accessible, and a thin bees ...
Forum topic - ben_archer - 3 Nov 2006 - 5:28pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- The Intertype Machine
Hi, I am currently researching the Monotype and Linotype typesetting machines. I came across an ’Intertype ... somehow related. Was Intertype a subsidiary of either Monotype or Linotype? If not did it have much commercial success, and what were ... machine, which before the photo era was a hot metal line caster, a rival to Linotype. Here’s an article by Peter Here’s ...
Forum topic - pbaber - 20 Sep 2007 - 8:40pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments
