Linotype itself) bought old machines and made improved versions of it. After the patents expired, other companies would begin manufacturing similar machines: The Intertype Company started producing its own Intertypes around 1914, a machine closely resembling the Linotype and using the same matrices as the Linotype.

Major newspaper publishers retired Linotype and similar "hot metal" typesetting machines during the 1970s and 1980s, replacing them with phototypesetting