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 ...

Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...

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 ...

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 ...