“Ottmar, you’ve done it again! A line o’ type!”Whitelaw Reid

“The eighth won­der of the world!”Thomas Edi­son

The Lino­type is remark­able. It is the focus of [the lat­ter half of] my lat­est set of pho­tos online: High­lights from the Museum of Print­ing. You’d bet­ter grab a mag­ni­fy­ing glass so you can read the captions.

My apolo­gies for the crappy scan qual­ity. The Mac­in­tosh mon­i­tor I used had been cal­i­brated for news­pa­per use, so I couldn’t see that the blacks were so dis­mally absent until it was too late. Maybe you won’t notice, but I fig­ure it might be more appar­ent on LCD monitors.