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 ...

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 ...

A former Richmond and Twickenham Times linotype operator who fought in the Battle of the Bulge turns 100 on Thursday. Walter Fox joined this newspaper as a 14-year-old apprentice in 1930 and worked ...

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My father, Peter Norris, who has died aged 81, worked as a linotype operator for the Walthamstow Guardian, a local newspaper, and then for the printing firm Southwark Offset in London in the 1960s, a ...

Call me a dinosaur. I am the diplodocus of printing. I have actually hand-set metal type, letter by letter, into an open-sided box known as a stick. It took me roughly an hour to put together two ...

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 ...

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Once upon a time, way back in the 20th century, newspapers were not electronic but mechanical. Last week I reminisced about the mechanical tools used by reporters and copy editors: the standard manual ...

BOURNEMOUTH Evening Echo linotype operator William ‘Bill’ Spencer died peacefully on December 19, aged 94. Mr Spencer started his career as an apprentice printer with the Bournemouth Guardian in 1933 ...