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 ...

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 ...

Clephane's history of the linotype -- Linotype's early years : great expectations and unforeseen betrayals -- Mackey's 1936 history of the Linotype Company -- Mergenthaler's linotype machines, ...

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 ...

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While Stefan Beck and I are hunched over our white-hot Linotype machines rolling out the October issue of TNC, let me pause to suggest that all you non subscribers out there make the leap and purchase ...