Intertype
(ˈɪntətaɪp)
[f. name of the Inter-national Typesetting Machine Company, which manufactured the first machines of this type.]
The proprietary name of a composing machine which produces type in whole lines rather than individual letters; cf. Linotype, Monotype.
| 1913 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Apr. 242/2 International Typesetting Machine Company, New York, N.Y. Intertype—Type Casting, Setting, and Composing Machines. 1916 Legros & Grant Typogr. Printing-Surfaces 437 The Intertype..closely resembles the two-letter, single-magazine Linotype... The constructors have given special attention to speed of operating... It appears to be virtually a copy of American model 5 Linotype. 1932 Year Bk. Printing Dept. North-Western Polytechnic 1931–2 (Intertype Section, subtitle) Examples of Intertype composition composed by students in the Intertype Classes, and printed direct from the slugs. 1946 A. Monkman in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding iii. 35/2 The Intertype... These [machines] are designed to produce a wide variety of composition, in the form of slugs. 1959 Times 14 Jan. 12/4 The great bulk of typesetting is achieved..by keyboard-operated Monotype, Linotype, and Intertype. 1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry ii. 74/1 The Intertype casts lines of type or slugs instead of individual types. |