A different type of printing

Coombs prints copies of the Saguache Crescent newspaper. [Photo/Agencies]

The Saguache Crescent newspaper is the last newspaper in the United States that is produced using a Linotype hot metal typesetting machine. Dean Coombs, the paper's owner and editor, has been publishing the small town newspaper once a week using a Lino-type machine that was purchased new in 1921, a few years after his family took over the paper in 1917. Coombs has been running the business by himself for the past 38 years and has no plans of shut-ting its doors anytime soon. Most news-papers discontinued the use of Linotypes over 40 years ago and were replaced with offset lithography printing and computer typesetting.