Linotype

There are even a few who are allowed to telephone their news directly to a swift linotype operator, who clicks it into type on his machine, without the scratch of a pencil.

Strictly speaking, neither the Linotype nor its improved competitor, the Intertype (brought to market about 1915), was a typesetting machine.

He quickly learned what a hell bucket is, how to melt lead slugs and pour pigs for the Linotype machines.

The bank then spun off Linotype, whose shares were traded on the Frankfurt exchange.

Reid was president of the company that made the Linotype. Its headquarters was the Tribune Building -- a technology test-bed, with the first Hoe press in its basement, Hoe's first machine to make curved stereotype plates and, later, one of the larger Goss Straightline presses, which enabled economical high-volume printing.

The existence of lead or other hazardous materials in a newspaper building of the hot-type era depends on what happened after the Linotypes shut down.

While not in class, he worked a Linotype at the Brookings County Press.

| Sunday Mercury Editor Paul Cole today and as a young reporter, and below, the old linotype machines at work

It was invented by George Clymer around 1813 and The linotype and (below) Columbian machines donated to Juniper Press by the ECHO designed to allow broadsheet newspaper pages to be printed at a single pull - the one currently in situ at the ECHO was once used to print the Southport Visiter.

With a few exceptions, most foundry type and Linotype mats seem to have been acquired in the 1950s.

| At one point he was one of three Examiner compositors to be sent to Manchester Training School for instruction in the operating of linotype machines.

For 10 years, from 1978 until 1988, Khaleej Times was typeset on a Linotype VIP typesetter using Bromide reels (black and white proofs on photographic papers) and printed on a Linotype UK Hunter Rotary machine that could churn out 30,000 copies an hour of 20-page, 630mm-long (24.8inch) cut-off newsprint.