TYPE - SETTING BY MACHINES.
MEETING OF THE LINOTYPE COMPANY. Press Association.Electric Telegraph.Copyti'jht. London, May 14. At a meeting of the Linotype Company Mr. Jacob Bright presided. The chairman announced that the most serious obstacles had been surmounted, and that the English machine was 50 per cent, superior to the American production. The training of mechanics to use the machine (type-setting) had prevented a rapid output. The manager of the Scottish Leader, an Edinburgh paper, stated that the cost of setting 250 columns by means of the linotype was no dearer than 50 by the hand process.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8879, 16 May 1892, Page 5
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