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 linotype operator's companion [microform] : a treatise on how to operate and care for the linotype machine : also contains a list of patents issued on type-setting, distributing and matrix-making ...

SAGUACHE — In southern Colorado, Dean Coombs operates the last linotype newspaper, fighting with and fixing up the the century old typesetting machine everyday in order to put out his family's paper ...

Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...

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 ...