Monotype and Hand Composition
M & H Type offers Monotype composition to
printers who want machine setting of metal type. The Monotype system is
far superior to the Linotype, which casts raised letters on lead slugs the
width of the line. Monotype is a two-part machine: a keyboard for the punching
of a paper tape that is transferred to a caster, providing the directions
for casting individual pieces of type, just like handset type. M & H
Type will gladly give estimates for both machine-set and handset type, based
on your manuscript or layout of copy. We are able to provide fine book composition
for printers and publishers and outstanding typography for graphic designers,
advertising agencies, and a discriminating general clientele. Our capabilities
include highly technical composition and foreign language work.
Composition is furnished by us in galleys or made up in type forms ready
for printing by letterpress. One set of galley proofs is pulled for the
customer's approval of typesetting. An initial proofreading will have been
done and house corrections will have been made by M & H Type; however,
the customer is responsible for catching errors that may appear on its galley
proofs. Such mistakes are corrected at no charge. A second proof is pulled
for any changes. In the case of page makeup, page proofs are pulled. For
offset or relief plates we provide camera-ready reproduction proofs.
In our cases are some two hundred typefaces that were cast by other
foundries, some of them now quite rare. We cannot cast these faces; consequently
they are not sold or rented for printing, but they are available for hand
composition in reproduction proofs. View a list
of all faces in our collection that were produced by outside foundries, with sizes noted.
We ship by United Parcel Service to any destination in the United States
and Canada. We require a metal charge for all composition. This charge may
be regarded as a deposit that will be refunded to you or credited to your
account when you have returned the metal to our foundry. Metal being returned
must have been sorted by grade, so that foundry, Monotype, and slug metal
will not be mixed when melted for recycling.
