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 ...
In a huge undertaking Urban Cottage Industries restored what is now the UK’s largest working linotype operation, and found the people who know how to work it. Now some of the linotype and letterpress ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
When the Skagit Valley Herald moved to a new location near the Second Street Viaduct in 1966, it left behind a piece of equipment that had once revolutionized newspaper production. With that move, the ...
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 ...
Raymond “Ray” Loomis, a printing expert and longtime volunteer at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, died of pneumonia Sept. 10 at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. He was 94. Mr. Loomis was ...
As of this week, the Arizona Daily Star is being printed in Las Vegas, Nevada, and trucked to Tucson for delivery.
How would you like to be the last of something? In America, we celebrate people who invent things that make our lives better or easier or safer. People who are far-reaching in their ideas like Steve ...