City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was demolished by city crews on Moore ...

SAGUACHE — As dry leaves scratched at the town’s streets, 73-year-old Saguache Crescent publisher Dean Coombs hunched over ...

The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New ...

The short film, Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU, produced in 1978 covers the very last day the New York Times was set for printing in the old way, using hot metal typesetting. We’ve covered the magic of ...

Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...

For this week’s Retrotechtacular we’re looking at Linotype Machines; mechanical marvels that brought about the mass production of printed media. It was a cold dreary day in 1876, when a German ...

In a huge undertaking Urban Cottage Industries restored what is now the UK’s largest working linotype operation, and found the people who know how to work it. Now some of the linotype and letterpress ...