News of the San Fransisco-based Letterform Archive’s acquisition of 6,000+ master drawings of Linotype faces. Great examples of the drawings of some of the key Linotype faces at the foot of the article.
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GreatBigStory.com: The Saguache Crescent
From greatbigstory.com – “The Saguache Crescent” newspaper in Saguache, Colo., has been printing its news the same way since the 1800s. Lay the letters. Ink. Press. Publisher Dean Coombs’ family has had the business for three generations, and has helped print out the weekly broadsheet on a linotype since he was 12 years old. See…
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Hiring Hot Metal Compositors
I’d missed this in July (not sure how) about friends at Urban Cottage Industries hiring for line casting machine operators.
A guide — in note form — to salvaging a Intertype or Linotype