Linotype machine
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Oct 15, 2026
Jeff JarvisHOST
Part of the story is the unions didn't see that coming fully.
Jeff JarvisHOST
The, the, the unions, the type, the typographers embraced the Linotype when they saw that it really worked, and they insisted that they had to be the ones to operate it and control it.
Jason HowellHOST
Mm-hmm.
Jeff JarvisHOST
And they benefited for three-quarters of a century until the next technologies came along, punch paper tape, photo composition, uh, and computers, computers in newsrooms, and eventually PostScript.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I did the, yeah, yeah, I did a Saturday at the, um, uh, Historic New England.
Jeff JarvisHOST
A huge, gigantic, like 12-foot screen with a big Linotype on it.
Jeff JarvisHOST
It was so much fun.
Leo LaporteHOST
That's fun.
Paris MartineauHOST
[laughs]
Jeff JarvisHOST
Yes, it is
Leo LaporteHOST
... uh, and, uh, helped demonstrate with a wonderful, um, uh, volunteer named Chris Bradford, the actual Linotype, answering, fielding question after question after question.
Leo LaporteHOST
Very cool.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I did the, uh, yeah, I did the Saturday at the, um, uh, Historic New England.
Jeff JarvisHOST
A huge, gigantic, like 12-foot screen with a big Linotype on it.
Jeff JarvisHOST
It was so much fun.
Leo LaporteHOST
That's fun.
Paris MartineauHOST
It's a little bit different.
Paris MartineauHOST
[laughs]
Jeff JarvisHOST
Yes, it is, uh, and, uh, helped demonstrate with a wonderful, um, uh, volunteer named Chris Bradford, the actual Linotype, answering, fielding question after question after question.
Leo LaporteHOST
Very cool.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I did the, yeah, yeah, I did the Saturday at the, um, uh, Historic New England.
Jeff JarvisHOST
A huge, gigantic, like 12-foot screen with a big Linotype on it.
Jeff JarvisHOST
It was so much fun.
Leo LaporteHOST
That's fun.
Paris MartineauHOST
[laughs]
Jeff JarvisHOST
Yes, it is
Leo LaporteHOST
... uh, and, uh, helped demonstrate with a wonderful, um, uh, volunteer named Chris Bradford, the actual Linotype, answering, fielding question after question after question.
Leo LaporteHOST
Very cool.
Anna SloanGUEST
So this was the way that the newspaper would have been printed back in the nineteen-teens, twenties, thirties.
Anna SloanGUEST
Um, and what's cool about this specific Linotype machine, um, that we're hoping to acquire is that it was the one used to print the newspapers in the nineteen thirties, which was the era in which the Medford Mail Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize.
Anna SloanGUEST
Nineteen thirty-four, they were the first newspaper, uh, in the state of Oregon to be awarded a Pulitzer.
Anna SloanGUEST
It's a real, a real feather in our cap of local Southern Oregon history to have had that.
Jason HowellHOST
Yeah.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I will be in Haverhill, Mass, near Boston, for a book talk at the, um, Historic New England in Haverhill at 10 o'clock in the morning, and then we'll go up the hill to the Museum of Printing, and you can see a live working Linotype and smell it and feel it, and so it's free.
Jeff JarvisHOST
If you're anywhere in New England, please, please come to Haverhill.
Jason HowellHOST
Love it.
Jason HowellHOST
Register here, and you can bloop, bloop, and go, and I mean, it's a full day event.
Jason HowellHOST
That's exciting.
Jeff JarvisHOST
Linotype, man.
Jeff JarvisHOST
Yeah.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I thought, "I've killed the Linotype.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I've killed one of the last living Linotypes." But he dug in and found it.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I still have the bent matrix, uh, that he fished out.
Leo LaporteHOST
That's why they didn't let you touch it, Jeff.
Jeff JarvisHOST
but it's also a problem of what the vision is.
Jeff JarvisHOST
Uh, uh, pardon me for this plug here, but the Linotype was a machine that was anticipated because everything else in publishing had sped up, but they couldn't figure out how to automate typesetting.
Jeff JarvisHOST
So I'm right in the same position I was-
Leo LaporteHOST
They were really needing that machine to do that thing.
2 HRS 17 MINS LATER
Jeff JarvisHOST
Yep.
Leo LaporteHOST
[laughs]
Jeff JarvisHOST
So I'll be there Saturday giving a book talk, and then going to the, to the, um, at, at, uh, Historic New England, and then going up the hill to, uh, the Computer History Museum, where, uh, Chris Bradford, the wonderful volunteer, and I will be demonstrating the Linotype.
Leo LaporteHOST
Man, I wish I could-
Jeff JarvisHOST
If anything's moving, it's a fan to cool the damn thing off.
Jeff JarvisHOST
No, the mechanics, what did I do with my white balance? The mechanics of the Linotype are all out there for everyone to see and see how brilliant it is.
Jeff JarvisHOST
And Otmar Mergenthaler invented, before his death, the Model 1.
Jeff JarvisHOST
He died in 1899.
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Leo LaporteHOST
And so they're trying to bring into life this vision.
Jeff JarvisHOST
But it's also a problem of what the vision is.
Jeff JarvisHOST
Pardon me for this plug here, but the Linotype was a machine that was anticipated because everything else...
Jeff JarvisHOST
in publishing had sped up, but they couldn't figure out how to automate typesetting.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I thought, "I've killed the Linotype.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I've killed one of the last living Linotypes." But he dug in and found it.
Jeff JarvisHOST
I still have the bent matrix, uh, that he fixed up.
Leo LaporteHOST
That's why they didn't let you touch it, Jeff.
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