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 ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

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 ...

The linotype machine, invented in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, revolutionized typesetting and with it the newspaper industry. The machine operator used a 90-character keyboard to assemble groups of ...

Michael Babcock flexes his fingers like a concert pianist as he slides in front of a clanking, sliding, synchronized conglomeration of mechanical arms and legs protruding from a hulking, 2-ton machine ...

I used to go to work at a long-gone newspaper factory on Fourth Street in St. Paul and ride an elevator to the newsroom on the fourth floor. I took great comfort in hearing the clickety-clack-clack of ...

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 ...

A linotype machine circa 1917. Printers used lead-based metal type. Workers were exposed to the heavy metal from printing machines. (Courtesy of National Library of Medicine) Pure. Healthy. Modern.

My newspaper career spans more than 45 years of innovation, culminating in the nearly total computerization of the process of writing, composing and printing what you read on this page. But I have ...