Heh, I just dropped by this channel because I was curious how a Linotype really worked (I was only vaguely aware of it before.) ... stuck around for this entire tour series haha. It's always great to see a host/presenter who obviously loves what they do and knows their stuff.

Great storytelling. Thank you.

A lot of the highly skilled Linotype operators could do something called "hang the elevator." They would set the line of type so fast, they had to wait for the preceding lines to complete their cycle through the machine before they could elevate that current line.

The music in this one is actually bearable. Can't stand the ones with EDM or sappy music

My grandpa was a small town printer with a weekly newspaper. He had a whole shop full of presses, Linotypes...and all 10 of his fingers! All his presses were belt driven, and his newspaper press was as big as a pickup truck!

Printing press

What recipe do you use for your ink?

Fascinating!

Wow!

Where is ink in substrate

Great video

Stinkin’ computers ruined everything! The Linotype is an amazing mechanical marvel! Such technology is lost in todays world. Thanks for sharing your video.

Rip to your Benjamin Franklin actor o7

Rip the guy who acted as Benjamin Franklin o7

Rip to one of the staff at Carson o7

Where can I get some of that Nervine?

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Uh I think the story is a little off on the unitype.

Nice machine

Fantastic presentation! Bravo! I love it!!

I was wondering how it was done. Modern machinery no doubt makes it easier now than 1918!

Ascendence of the bookworm!

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This is brilliant to watch on many levels of professionalism and I was just wondering if you use different plates for each colour to achieve the final print? Many thanks for posting this video. You rock!

You can stop after you get your 15,000 papers printed then start over tomorrow.

Back in the 1960's, as day-release printing student I used an Albion Press in composing room of the Printing School in Headington, Oxford, England. In fact, I've still got a copy of a small book we produced on this press about the history of ballooning. The printing school is long gone. Knocked down to make way for a new building for Brookes University. All my old printing firms I worked for in Oxford are all gone as well. Thank goodness for all the various printing museums to remember those long ago days of hot-metal type.

Line setting is what we were introduced in high school.

Nice explanation and video. My brother was a Linotype operator and composer (if that's the correct word) from about 1950-1980. I remember he always carried a small metal tool in his pocket. It was about the size of a business card, rectangular with a small semicircle tab on one side. Is there a name for this tool? Thanks.

So cool I’m surprised that chunk of metal cools quickly enough to be useful (not that I know anything about alloys of lead, lol)

Oh Boy! This brings back memories. We had a Columbian press at the Church Army Press in Temple Cowley, Oxford, England. I'm not sure how old it was as Church Army press was originally based in London and moved to Oxford in 1912. Our oldest worker, Charlie Hedges, came with the company from London and he said the Columbian Press came, as well. As an apprentice, I used to operate the Columbian press to print Church posters. I left the C.A.P. in 1967. I understand from talking to people that were still working there that sometime in the 1970's, when the monotype casters and keyboards were being scrapped to make way for photo-type printing, that the Columbia press probably suffered the same fate. Shame if it was, as it would made wonderful item for a museum.

I was fortunate enough to be a student at Palm Springs high school, which had an operational Linotype machine. We also had a Ludwig machine as well as an excellent dark room and stripping room. God bless Robert Andrade, my teacher I was blessed to be able to see this close-up and operate this machine.

This is awesome!

WONDERFUL video! The best video on the Linotype I've EVER seen. I saw a bank of Linotypes in the late 50s at a large printing company right behind my house, and I never forgot those machines.

Great informative video! I have a question: was it common to re-use certain lines that repeated for every issue? Say for example a regular column heading or cartoon heading. Or would everything be re-done a fresh each day?

Is that limestone? Modern day Alois Senefelders! (the inventor offset printing or lithography) Nice stuff!!

My one true weakness.

So cool to see the rare contemporaries and competitors of the Linotype!

What a great set of information videos. One comment if I may. I recall from my printing teacher, Capitals were to always be identified as CAPS. After the advent of the Macintosh and desktop publishing I recall these young breed of artists and compositors using the term “upper case”. Many times I would ask why typewriters and their computer keyboards did not have an “Upper Case Lock” or “uc lock’ The reasoning given was that the upper position type case commonly contained ‘both’ CAPS and SMALL CAPS. In my training I read and saw illustrations of other type cases, but in my real work experience in hand type use and industry travels, I had never seen anything used other than the California Job Case.

J A Rogers was my Great Grandfather who adopted my great grandmother and her sister in the late 1880's. I am so happy to find out more about his invention. I knew that he had invited it but hadn't know his history! I also didn't have that photo of him. THANK YOU!

Quite slow - how on earth did they print enough newspapers in time for each day?

Thank you for such an interesting video. When I left school in the late '60's, I was a mechanic working on about 30 or so Intertype machines at a local newspaper in South Wales UK. The Intertype machines were very similar to the Linotype as I'm sure you know.

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Wonderful!

When I was young , at 21 years old I have been working in the Printing Company, it was called Handpress Or letter press printing.

I'm a letterpress printer - at one time i had 2 ARAB's, an Albion, Heidelberg, Wharfdale and I've restored and printed on a Columbian eagle - the Columbian I restored is at Shantytown on the West coast, South Island, New Zealand. It had Scottish thistles around the cornucopia and after some research I found it had been made in Scotland, brought to NZ around 1890 and was at the napier telegraph where it survived a very big earthquake afterward being moved to the South island and Greymouth Star. Beautiful big old thing it was.

I became an apprentice hand compositor in 1966 and at trade school the other guys told me I was crazy not to be a hand and machine compositor so that I could learn the Linotype. They argued "A good Linotype operator has a well paid job for life." Well, they pulled all the linotypes out of all the newspaper offices only 10 years later. I became a camera operator and did paste up artwork from the new "galleys" of bromide typeset in a Compstar. All these skills also became obsolete within another 15 years or so. Technology replaced all those jobs. But the innovation and creativity and problem solving that was involved in the invention of these incredible machines is absolutely amazing. Thanks for preserving and showing them off in the videos.

Too bad we can't power our EV's this way.. 😑

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Mark, I just came across your channel and I’m absolutely thrilled. Having worked in the printing industry myself. I started in the mid 90’s when the computer was about to dominate our field. Luckily, I worked in a specialty shop with Kluges and Heidelberg windmills and cylinders that were about 60 years old.