LinotypeUniversity.com
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Linotype University V
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- Welcome to the wonderful world of line casting! If you are visiting this site, it is likely that you have a secret (or not-so-secret) yearning to learn to operate that most marvelous of giant, clanking, squirting beauty known as a Linotype machine. For much of a century, this exquisite invention of Ottmar Mergenthaler served as the mainstay of the newspaper and job printing industries. While the coming of photographic and digital typesetting doomed these classic machines to economic obsolescence, there lives on a hearty cadre of letterpress printers and typesetters who would give up their lives before they'd lose their Linos. If you would like to take the first steps toward joining this elite fraternity, you have come to the right place. There are many good instruction books on the line casting process, and with much dedication, time and effort it certainly is possible to teach yourself. When you do it on your own, however, it may often seem that you are not making any progress, which will cause you to get discouraged and abandon your quest. The best way to learn the line casting process, therefore, is to apprentice at the feet of an old timer who knows these machines inside and out. Unfortunately, these old timers are getting increasingly scarce, so we have done the next best thing and pulled several of them together to teach at this second line casting class: Linotype University V.
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