Given a composing linecaster matrix, how to determine what type it will make.
Mergenthaler Linotype
Various editions of Mergenthaler Linotype's Useful Matrix Information.
Matrices made by Mergenthaler Linotype are identified with a code stamped on them which has a triangle (and numbers) in it.
Intertype (US)
Matrices made by the Intertype Corporation in the US are identified by markings which show the body (point) size with "P" after it and then, on a separate line, a number indicating the matrix (not typeface) series with a numeric or alphanumeric code.
Adler Traldi (Italy)
An incomplete compiled table of matrix data.
Adler Traldi matrices are identified with a code stamped on them which has a star (and numbers) in it. However, Star Parts / Linotype Parts Co. also used a star in their code.
Simoncini (Italy)
[NOT DONE] An incomplete compiled table of matrix data.
Simoncini matrices are identified with a code stamped on them which has an 'S' on its side in it.
Star Parts (US)
[NOT DONE] An incomplete compiled table of matrix data.
Star Parts / Linotype Parts Co. matrices are identified with a code stamped on them which has a star (and numbers) in it. However, Adler Traldi also used a star in their code.
This is primarily for historical interest. Very few Linographs survive (I know of only three, none of which are operational). There were other composing linecasters as well, such as the Rogers Typograph (made from the 1890s through, in Germany, the 1960s) and its derivative, the Linotype Jr., but I have little information on them.
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