Intertype ads: “Intertype vs Linotype”
Contributed by Stephen Coles on May 28th, 2016. Artwork published in
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Intertype placed several brash advertisements in The Inland Printer during the trade magazine’s 1913 run. The first ad is a direct response to Linotype’s claim of patent infringement. In a slightly ironic twist, some of the ads (below) use the same typeface as Linotype’s ad, Caslon 3.
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