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 ...

In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that could create an entire line of type at once. It was called the linotype and it revolutionized... Long Before The Internet, The Linotype Sped Up The ...

Linotype was a great invention. It was a machine used in printing that revolutionized typesetting, especially with newspaper publishing. Before Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine in ...

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 ...

For more than a year one small, daily newspaper on Boston's South Shore has used in its regular operations one of the most revolutionary innovations in the printing business in the past 75 years. The ...

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 ...

IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set ...