The Varityper itself was a variable-set impact typewriter derived from the earlier Hammond. For information on it see ../../ Typewriters -> Literature -> Hammond / Vari-Typer
By 1961, The Varityper Corp. was a subsidiary of the Addressograph-Multigraph Corp.
Varityper Headliner Model 840
[NOT DONE] The Varityper "Headliner Model 840" was a non-keyboard based hand-operated phototypesetting machine intended, as its name suggests, for generating short headlines. Here are the Operating Instructions for this model. Also a Varityper type disk and instructions.
[Army TM]
[to do: add US Army Technical Manual for the portable printing shop based around the Varityper Headliner]
index to phototypesetting type faces
index to phototypesetting type faces (Toronto, Ontario: Addressograph-Multigraph of Canada, Ltd., 1975.)
Due to GATT requirements in current US copyright law, this booklet remains in copyright in the US (even though Addressograph-Multigraph hasn't existed for over thirty years) and I cannot reprint it.
Comp/Set 500
"Comp/Set 500 direct Entry Phototypesetter." (East Hanover, NJ: Varityper Division, Addressograph-Multigraph, n.d.) The icon at left links to a 113 Megabyte PDF.
Type Availability for Comp/Set Phototypesetters
Type Availability for Comp/Set Phototypesetters (Toronto, Ontario: Addressograph-Multigraph of Canada, Ltd., n.d.) A list, not a specimen book.
Due to GATT requirements in current US copyright law, this booklet remains in copyright in the US (even though Addressograph-Multigraph hasn't existed for over thirty years) and I cannot reprint it.
The Comp/Set 500 brochure was published in the US without copyright notice at a time when such notice was required to secure copyright. It therefore passed into the public domain upon initial publication. This digital reprint remains in the public domain.
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