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 ...

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 ...

The linotype operator's companion [microform] : a treatise on how to operate and care for the linotype machine : also contains a list of patents issued on type-setting, distributing and matrix-making ...