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 being demolished by city crews. Like ...

The last linotype machine newspaper in America is the Saguache Crescent in Saguache, Colorado. It’s a story worth printing, although publisher Dean Combs doesn’t need to. News outlets from around the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

EASTON — Tucked away in a dark nook of the lobby of an office building on Hanson Street sits a remnant of the Star Democrat's past: a Linotype machine. The old, dark metal, intricate-looking machine — ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SAGUACHE — As dry leaves scratched at the town’s streets, 73-year-old Saguache Crescent publisher Dean Coombs hunched over his keyboard behind a pot of gray ...

Before digital printing, there were Linotype operators, or typesetters, who used the Linotype machine to print the written word. The machine was introduced in 1884 using hot metal blocks to imprint ...

American inventor Thomas Edison described the linotype machine as the eighth wonder of the world when it was introduced in 1886. The technology revolutionised typesetting to make printing more ...

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Because the Linotype was patented in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, it could not have been the Star Democrat's first printing press. But as current Star Democrat pressman Joey Smith scanned the old ...