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Subject: Model 27 Linotype

Author:
Patrick Leary

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Date Posted: 02:20:42 10/06/03 Mon

I'm in possession of a nice 8x10 glossy photo from Mergenthaler Linotype of a Model 27 . . . all 72-channel magazines, no auxiliaries. It has the old-style crank (13 revolutions per magazine) for changing magazines, and it looks like there were only three on the machine. Anyone out there who ran one? How'd it work? I'm presuming mostly for ads and heads, right? The closest I came was a model 26 which was used for the head machine at the Canton (Ill.) Daily Ledger in 1956. We had a 72-channel on top and a 90-channel on the bottom. Heads were in 24- and 18-pt. versions of Memphis Condensed (only one-letter mats) and then we had to put in a top stub to set 14-pt. heds from the 90-channel magazine. I also swing MORE magazines for 12-pt. decks on some of the large 3-column heads. Occasionally they'd want some Memphis italic in 12- or 14-pt. for ads. The picture doesn't look like Mergy had come up with the wide 72s seen on the 33-34-35-36.

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