Printing Impressions

The Target Report: What’s in a Letter? Monotype Acquired by Private Equity Firm

After rolling up the business of selling fonts, Monotype Imaging has announced that it is exiting the public market, accepting an offer from private equity firm HGGC. This highly profitable business ...
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Monotype operator pledges to press on for life

Lewis Mitchell meticulously cleans parts for a monotype caster in the basement of Arion Press. In the basement of Arion Press Lewis Mitchell, 80, slides open a box of parts that change the font size ...
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[Trade catalogs from Lanston Monotype Machine Co.]

"Lanston Monotype Machine Company was founded by Tolbert Lanston in Washington D.C., USA, in 1887. Lanston had a patented mechanical method of punching out metal types from cold strips of metal which ...
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Monotype Giant Caster Makes Type for Ribbon Heads

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