Intertype typesetting machine

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The Intertype setting machine or International Typesetting Machine is a die setting and line casting machine that works on the principle of the Linotype setting machine .

Emergence

The Intertype was developed by Wilbur Scudder, inventor of the monoline, and Herman Ridder of the Associated Press . In addition to Scudder, who used to work as technical manager at Mergenthaler Linotype Co. (Brooklyn), TS Romans, BF Soper, WE Bertram and others were involved. The development was born in 1912 , after the Linotype typesetting machine patents had expired. This was a basic requirement for the construction, as the basic principle of the Intertype was identical to the Linotype typesetting machine. The Intertype machine came onto the market in 1913 . It also had a circulating system of matrices and produced completely cast lines of writing from a lead alloy. The matrices from Linotype production could also be used in the Intertype; many other components of the machines were identical. (For a more detailed description of the functional principle, see: Linotype typesetting machine .)

differences

There have been several improvements compared to the Linotype. The Intertype managed with fewer components overall and the number of moving parts was also reduced, which promised a lower susceptibility to defects and lowered the price. The guide pins of the dies have been redesigned. Reinforcement at this point reduced wear. As a result, the dies now had a longer service life. Initially, the Intertype was only delivered with a single type magazine. For a correspondence you therefore had to exchange the magazine. However, additional magazines could be purchased, whereby two of a maximum of four mountable magazines could be mixed when setting. For example, awards in the line could be achieved. In general, there were numerous upgrade options for the machine, for example an automatic device for filling and centering the sentence lines or thermostatic air cooling for the casting device.

Further development to phototypesetting

In 1950 , the Intertype Company released the Photosetter . The machine still worked according to the well-known principle of matrix circulation, but the matrices (now called Fotomat) had a negative in writing on their broad side and were exposed on film or photo paper in an exposure chamber.

literature

  • Richard E. Huss: The Development of Printers' Mechanical Typesetting Methods 1822-1925. University Press, Virginia 1973, ISBN 0-8139-0336-X .
  • Willy Klemz: The typography and the typesetting machines. Golden Rules No. 4. Kupijai & Prochnow, Berlin 1960.
  • Hans-Jürgen Wolf: History of the graphic process. A contribution to the history of technology . Historia Verlag, Dornstadt 1990, ISBN 3-980-0257-4-8 .

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