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 ...

Michael Babcock flexes his fingers like a concert pianist as he slides in front of a clanking, sliding, synchronized conglomeration of mechanical arms and legs protruding from a hulking, 2-ton machine ...

In a huge undertaking Urban Cottage Industries restored what is now the UK’s largest working linotype operation, and found the people who know how to work it. Now some of the linotype and letterpress ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

Raymond “Ray” Loomis, a printing expert and longtime volunteer at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, died of pneumonia Sept. 10 at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. He was 94. Mr. Loomis was ...