Saguache Crescent is Reportedly Last US Newspaper to Use Hot Metal Typesetting

The Saguache Crescent is reported to be the last newspaper in the U.S. still produced with a Linotype hot metal typesetting machine. Most newspapers stopped using Linotypes more than 40 years ago and replaced the technology with offset lithography printing and computer typesetting.

Dean Coombs, the paper's owner and editor, has been publishing the small town newspaper once a week using a Linotype 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 shutting its doors anytime soon..