Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...

1886: The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use Linotype, a complex but highly efficient typesetting machine that revolutionizes the printing process. Employing a 90-character keyboard, ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Neighbors ran a story sent in by Al Grorud, formerly of Mahnomen, Minn., and now of East Dennis, Mass., who wrote about working on a hot-type press in Larimore, N.D., one day when ...

VERVINS, FRANCE (AFP) - Jenny Braconnier sits at a hulking grey machine, amid the fumes of molten lead, swiftly typing out the news from north-east France on a strange-looking keyboard that produces ...

Forum readers are terrific at responding to items in this column. Here are a couple of examples. Last summer, Neighbors told of the Linotype keyboard Donn McLellan, Apple Valley, Minn., wanted to give ...

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 ...

Jenny Braconnier sits at a hulking grey machine, amid the fumes of molten lead, swiftly typing out the news from northeast France on a strange-looking keyboard that produces lines of metal type.

Jenny Braconnier sits at a hulking grey machine, amid the fumes of molten lead, swiftly typing out the news from northeast France on a strange-looking keyboard that produces lines of metal type.