In either case, it generated new paper tape that could then be fed to a phototypesetter or
linecaster.
Long before the Internet liberated documents from printed pages, a century before the earliest electronic pagination attempted to automate assembly of those pages, Ottmar Mergenthaler's first practical
linecaster mechanized the task of manually composing lines of type.
By the standards of the Linotype, the mechanical
linecaster that revolutionized printing more than a century ago, Luttrell's Intertype model is not that old.
For instance, Dewalt tells us that, prior to the First World War, Canada was one of the most important manufacturers of
linecasters in the world, boasting `one of two Topograph factories in the world, one of three Monoline plants, and one of four Linotype operations' (pp.
This process was called "specific markup." At first the code set used wasn't ASCII; it was teletypesetting (TTS), with control codes like elevate, paper-feed, and quad-left designed for paper-tape-driven
linecasters made by Linotype and Intertype.
was selling Intertype two-letter
linecasters for $2150 -- a price its ads said would save buyers $1,000.
Wire copy arriving in tape form had to be properly cut to takes, pegged and carried to
linecasters or filed for future use.