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 ...

When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...

LOWELL — Francis L. “Deke” Descoteaux, 88, a Lowell resident who was a retired linotype operator for a local printing company and a World War II veteran, died Sunday morning, Aug. 14, at Lowell ...

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 ...

Bill Campbell might have had ink in his blood, but he never got it on his crisply laundered white dress shirts. A hands-on newspaperman of the old school, he learned the business as a printer and ...

We have a fascinating old machine that needs a new home. We have been cleaning up in preparation for our return to work in our offices, and we no longer have room for a piece of newspaper history that ...

As a backup Linotype operator, I felt much like a church organist, the grand machine above and surrounding me. The large keyboard was different from the typewriter, and efficient. Lower-case keys on ...

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 ...

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 ...

I come from a long line of printers: job-shop printers, newspaper compositors, linotype operators, etc. I have printer’s ink in my blood, as they say, and enjoyed working with my father in his shop, ...