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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a year one small, daily newspaper on Boston's South Shore has used in its regular operations one of the most revolutionary innovations in the printing business in the past 75 years. The ...

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 ...

In front of you are two drawers, called cases. They’re full of letters, split between a case you place higher — an upper case — full of capitals, and a lower case of minuscules, or small, literal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Linotype: The Film, directed by Doug Wilson, 2012, 75mins Does a 19th-century typesetting machine merit a ...