The noisy clackety-clack of the Linotype machine, once a staple of print shops and newspaper composing rooms everywhere, is an industrial sound that has practically vanished. The Linotype, whose ...

City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was demolished by city crews on Moore ...

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 ...

I used to go to work at a long-gone newspaper factory on Fourth Street in St. Paul and ride an elevator to the newsroom on the fourth floor. I took great comfort in hearing the clickety-clack-clack 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 ...

The short film, Farewell — ETAOIN SHRDLU, produced in 1978 covers the very last day the New York Times was set for printing in the old way, using hot metal typesetting. We’ve covered the magic of ...

My newspaper career spans more than 45 years of innovation, culminating in the nearly total computerization of the process of writing, composing and printing what you read on this page. But I have ...

An era ends at The Chronicle today, when the last of the newspaper's old-time printers bid farewell. The printers -- who numbered more than 700 back in the 1960s, when Linotype machines loaded with ...

For 116 years, the identity and fortunes of the Daily Press have been inextricably tied to its presses. Eight different presses have printed the newspaper since its founding in 1896, each one ...

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 ...

Several people have mentioned to me how weird those robotic cameras look on some TV news shows. You may have seen them-cameras that are aimed at the newscasters, but that are operated via electronic ...

In October 1912, the Los Angeles Times occupied its third building at the corner of Broadway and First Street. The building was described in a Jan. 1, 1913, Los Angeles Times article: The massive and ...