Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant ...

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 ...

BLUFORD, Ill. (AP) -- Before his retirement, Dean Nayes of Bluford crisscrossed the nation as a Linotype operator. During his career, he was employed by more than 80 newspapers, ranging from The Hill ...

Curtiss Hewitt “Mac” McGaffin Sr., a retired Linotype operator for The Sun who was active in affairs of Columbia Typographical Union Local 101-12, died of pneumonia Friday at his daughter’s home in ...

Louis M. Balfour, a retired newspaper Linotype operator and a researcher of the history of the deaf, died June 8 of complications from pneumonia at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 98. Mr.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...