CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

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 ...

In the Associated Press bureau in Charlotte, N.C. one morning two years ago, an operator punched out a message that set a revolution in motion. The message: “Greetings. This is the opening of the ...

Today’s History Nugget is about the early history of newspapers in Fairbanks and the arrival of the first Mergenthaler Linotype machine from Dawson City in 1904. In those days nothing was easy and ...

At 6 o’clock one morning last week, an operator sat down at a shiny new teletypesetter in the Associated Press bureau in Charlotte, N.C. and punched out a 250-word story. As he finished, editors in ...

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 ...