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mechanical typesetting. while some, such as the paige compositor , met with limited success, by the end of the th century, several methods had been devised whereby an operator working a keyboard or other devices could produce the desired text. most of the successful systems involved the in-house casting
of the type to be used, hence are termed "hot metal" typesetting. the linotype machine , invented in , used a keyboard to assemble the casting matrices, and cast an entire line of type at a time (hence its name). in the monotype system , a keyboard was used to punch a paper tape , which was then fed...
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