Ludlow typograph

The Ludlow Typograph Company was the manufacturer of the device.

It also built a type caster that competed with the Ludlow Typograph.

The Ludlow Typograph involved hand-set matrices, but otherwise used hot metal.

A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing.

Designer of Eusebius, 1923, who worked at the Ludlow Typograph Company in Chicago.

Ludlow Typograph Co.

American designer (1898-1985), born in Scotland, who spent his entire life at Ludlow Typograph Company and built an impressive type library.

He joined the design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company in 1923 and served as director of the department of typeface design from 1933-71.

(Neither the Ludlow Typograph nor the Linotype is currently made; however, both machines can still be serviced, and parts and mats are readily available.)

A manual linecasting solution known as the Ludlow Typograph also met with success because it was able to cast display type sizes that other mechanical composition systems were unable to produce.

After another period of free-lancing, McMurtrie moved to Chicago, where he spent a year as typographic director of the Cuneo Press before leaving to become director of advertising and typography at Ludlow Typograph Company.

During the mid 20th century period when The Biz was printed by W. R. Bright and Sons, the paper was printed with a F4503E Elrod strip casting machine manufactured by Ludlow Typograph Company.

The design department of the Ludlow Typograph Company commissioned him to design a Venetian type-face (i.e. one based on the designs of Venetian type-founder Nicolas Jenson), and his Nicolas Jenson was the result.