Stenographic letterpress

The shorthand letterpress is a printing process with which shorthand characters are printed.

Initially, the shorthand characters were represented by woodcut, copperplate engraving and stone printing. After the advent of offset printing , it completely conquered the field. In comparison to conventional letterpress printing with movable type, however, the above-mentioned processes are not very efficient, so that the desire for a printing process with shorthand types soon arose . Friedrich Mosengeil and later Franz Xaver Gabelsberger already dealt with the question of shorthand letterpress printing. Gustav Schelter made the first attempts to manufacture such types in 1847, the Lehmann and Mohr type foundry in 1850 and Faulmann and Leipold in 1858 (elaboration of 1430 types). After improvements in the following years, the types were used for several years to print shorthand magazines in the Gabelsberger system.

There have also been attempts to develop suitable printing processes in the other shorthand systems. As in the Gabelsberger system, there were also attempts at Stolze-Schrey , the stenotachygraphic school, at Faulmann , or in national stenography , but none of them were successful in the end. Efforts have also been made to develop abbreviated systems that should have been better suited for letterpress printing, but without being able to gain acceptance.

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Computer-aided generation of shorthand handwriting (PDF file; 1019 kB)