Friday, August 16, 2013

A Linotype machine? Really?

Here's something I would not have to expected to read in 2013: a newspaper is still published using a Linotype machine. The Saguache Crescent in Colorado is thought to be the last newspaper in America still being put out with the technology invented in the 19th century.  Publisher Dean Coombs puts out his four-page weekly with the same Linotype machine his grandparents used

"I'm not much interested in change," Combs said in the story published by the Los Angeles Times.  "If it works we just keep doing it."