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Printers Are Not That Type Any More

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Harry Sommerfield is one of the remaining few inside a building made for his kind.

Sommerfield, 89, is a retired newspaper printer—one of 12 printers who live among the 148 people inside the majestic Union Printers Home here.

Decades ago, the sprawling complex at Pikes Peak Avenue and Union Boulevard was the exclusive retirement home for printers—men and women who made their living setting type and producing the nation's publications.