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From the editor: Last Dispatch Linotype machine has new home in museum Alan D. Miller, The Columbus Dispatch © FILE PHOTO, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Linotype operators worked at these machines in the composing room to set type for The Columbus Dispatch. The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New York, hadn t been used by the Dispatch for 47 years. Who would recognize or appreciate this wacky looking, mechanical marvel of a long-gone era in printing? Dozens of you.

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