Every week my staff and I trucked down to the Pilot’s office on the Peninsula and checked the galleys and proofed the next issue of our little paper.

Oddly, it was a prideful feeling to see the ink on our fingers and feel the cuts from the Exacto knives as we worked. And the Pilot’s printers were always there for advice and support, before printing our paper, swiftly, in a few minutes.

Yes, yes, Internet papers are faster, cheaper to produce, easier to edit, etc., etc., etc., but I still miss the old ways, the rattle of the Merganthaler LinoType machines in the background, and at a main newspaper printing facility, the thundering rumble of a giant Merganthaler Press in full run.