From the editor: Last Dispatch Linotype machine has new home in museum
From the editor: Last Dispatch Linotype machine has new home in museum Alan D. Miller, The Columbus Dispatch © FILE PHOTO, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Linotype operators worked at these machines in the composing room to set type for The Columbus Dispatch. The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New York, hadn't been used by the Dispatch for 47 years. Who would recognize or appreciate this wacky looking, mechanical marvel of a l...
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