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Monotype machine
4. Printing. Usually in form Monotype. A proprietary name for: a composing machine comprising a keyboard which produces perforated tape and a caster which is controlled by the tape to produce type in individual characters. Frequently attributive, esp. in Monotype machine. Now chiefly historical.Caster units for Monotype machines have a matrix case which hold matrices for several different fonts or character sets. Each set of perforations in the tape supplies a location code to the caster, enabling it to position the right matrix over the mould and cast the individual character.The Monotype system contrasts with the Linotype system, which casts entire lines of type at a time.
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1893 Official Directory World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) 459/1 Lanston Monotype Machine Co., Washington, D.C. Monotype Machine.
1895 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 5 961 The Lanston Monotype..invented by Tolbert Lanston, of Washington, D.C. marks an important advance in the development of typographical art..both a type-setting and a type-casting machine.
1897 Daily News 15 Oct. 6/2 The monotype machine.
1906 Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 6/5 The machinery..included a couple of Monotypes.
1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxviii. 343 ‘I only want five letters..and a complete set of figures.’ ‘Will monotype castings do ye?’ ‘I'd rather have foundry-metal if you have it.’
1965 J. Moran Composition of Reading Matter vi. 65 The Monotype machine consists of two units—the keyboard and the caster. By operation of the keyboard a paper ribbon is perforated by means of compressed air. The ribbon is fed into a caster which carries a matrix-case.
1973 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (ed. 5) iv. 79 The type produced by the Monotype is of excellent quality, and in use is indistinguishable from founders' type.
1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 92/3 The Linotype and Monotype machines, invented towards the end of the [19th] century, brought almost total mechanization.
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