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 ...

As part of a new tech segment, we're occasionally going to be looking at a concept, invention or tool that's altered the way the world works. To start things off, we asked Doug Wilson, director of ...

WOBURN, MA—Aug. 2, 2006—Monotype Imaging Inc., a global leader in font and imaging technologies, has acquired Linotype GmbH, a subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG and home of the renowned ...

The last linotype machine newspaper in America is the Saguache Crescent in Saguache, Colorado. It’s a story worth printing, although publisher Dean Combs doesn’t need to. News outlets from around the ...

We have a fascinating old machine that needs a new home. We have been cleaning up in preparation for our return to work in our offices, and we no longer have room for a piece of newspaper history that ...

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 Saguache Crescent’s masthead is cast from lead in a process that allows it to survive a year of printing. Rob Hammer A mechanical ruckus. Oiled metal clattering hard and loose. A room astounding ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Linotype: The Film, directed by Doug Wilson, 2012, 75mins Does a 19th-century typesetting machine merit a ...

After serving as a controversial migrant shelter, the huge former factory and warehouse complex at 47 Hall Street in Clinton Hill will be redeveloped as mixed income housing with a new skyscraper and ...

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 ...