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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...