Article: 1910-1919: HOT METAL & JOB PRESSES CHARACTERIZE AN ERA.

Meanwhile, publication printers opted for rotogravure, sometimes in combination with letterpress.

In the century's early decades, as important patents began to expire, hot-metal linecasters made by Mergenthaler and Intertype were fortifying their dominance in printing plants. For headline and display type, Washington I. Ludlow's recent invention of the Ludlow method of hot-metal typesetting took hold.

In the pressroom, smaller platen-type letterpresses and job presses were being developed and manufactured at affordable prices for use by small and medium-size shops. In 1917, Heidelberg begins to market its "windmill" press, an automatic platen machine; ...

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