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The Linotronic imagesetters are a now common type of high-quality printer, capable of printing at resolutions of up to 2540 dots per inch. The Linotronic allowed graphic artists to cheaply set type that exceeded the quality of many phototypesetting systems in use at the time, too expensive for homes or most offices, but chepaer than many other alternatives of printing, it was the graphic designers dream. Linotronic output by taking a PostScript file to a Service Bureau.

Manufactured by a German company, Mergenthaler GmbH, and made popular by the Adobe RIP (raster image processor) enabling postscript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter. The first commercial usage of Postscript, which began the emergence of graphics applications dominance by Adobe.

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