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 noisy clackety-clack of the Linotype machine, once a staple of print shops and newspaper composing rooms everywhere, is an industrial sound that has practically vanished. The Linotype, whose ...

SAGUACHE — As dry leaves scratched at the town’s streets, 73-year-old Saguache Crescent publisher Dean Coombs hunched over ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness. Linotype machines ...