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A black and white photograph of a large linotype machine with wires and various mechanics protruding from it, including a keyboard, placed upon a slightly taller platform on the floor.
The use of punched tape with linotype machines reduced the need for multiple linotype operators. Rather than multiple operators typing text into the keyboard at each linotype machine, the text was read into the machine using punched paper tape. This…

A black and white photograph of the backside of a large linotype machine, revealing much of its mechanics, gears, and wires as they protrude from the machine.
The linotype machine increased the speed with which newspapers could be printed. Unlike earlier printing forms, which used individual typeface blocks for each letter of text, linotype machines cast lines of type known as slugs. These would be stacked…

A color photograph of a white man, wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and glasses, stands smiling in front of shelf with wire baskets, beside a grey metal output slot on the wall.
The film output room was an important stop in the work process. Text and images were combined to create newspaper pages.

A black and white photograph of the front page of the newspaper in hot metal, composed of blocks of lead type.
Each newspaper page was made-up and locked into a metal frame. The separate galleys of lead typeface and imagery permitted printers to proofread a test print, identifying any errors and easily substituting slugs from the blocks of text.

A color photograph of a group of 11 older people standing together. One is black, the others are fair-skinned. In the front two men and two women hold up number handshapes, indicating 2015.
Former printers atThe Washington Post maintained friendships after they left. Here they gather at a restaurant in College Park, Maryland. Those pictured include: Front row: Brian Brizendine, Jan DeLap, Janie Golightly, Dean Keefe, Robin Kennedy,…
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