Printing Films (2026) is a series web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Printing Films online in HD.
Printing Films — Storyline
A series of vintage films that showcase the technologies and processes of printing, journalism, and typography.
Cast & Crew
Printing Films — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2026-02-08 |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 31 |
| Genre | series |
| Language | English |
| Status | Returning Series |
Printing Films — Episode Guide
Linotype
- E1: Linotype: Farewell etaoin shrdlu (2026-02-08) — A film created by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper production pro
- E2: Linotype: The Eighth Wonder (2026-02-15) — Made for the 75th anniversary of the Linotype in 1961, this film shows the impact that the invention of the Linotype had on the printing industry and the world. There are excellent
- E3: Linotype: Linotype Elektron (2026-02-22) — “In the age of jet speed, Mergenthaler presents the Elektron: fully automated typesetting that is jet fast and all new from the base up.” This film showcases the completely re-desi
- E4: Linotype: Linotron 1010 (2026-03-01) — The Linotron is a very early CRT exposure machine. It creates a page (not just a line) of text at one time. Using a film grid of characters, it can create up to 1,000 characters pe
- E5: Linotype: Linotron 505 (2026-03-08) — Featuring the cathode-ray tube Linotron 505 for high-speed film typesetting. Although this is a film machine, the input is still controlled by perforated tape.
The film features m
- E6: Linotype: Blue Streak Linotypes (2026-03-15) — This film features the Model 31 (with up to four magazines) and the Model 32 (with up to 8 magazines with the auxiliary magazines). Many new safety features and speed improvements
- E7: Linotype: The Diagrammer (2026-03-22) — Promotional film for the Mergenthaler Diagrammer which helped automate technical drawings for schematics, electrical diagrams and drafting. With a “James Bond” style introduction,
- E8: Linotype: The Tactics of Tapesetting (2026-03-29) — Created by Mergenthaler to show off the newest typesetting, film and computer machines to the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
This film was created at a time when all n
Monotype
- E1: Monotype: Type Faces in the Making (2026-02-08) — If you ever wondered how a typeface went from a designer’s drawing to a finished, cast piece of type from the Monotype; this is the film for you. Starting with an original drawing,
- E2: Monotype: Handle with Care and Understanding (2026-02-15) — This film was created to explain how to properly care and maintain a Monotype Casting Machine mould block (where the molten hot-metal is cast into the matrices).
For anyone intere
- E3: Monotype: Making Sure – How the Machines are Made (2026-02-22) — The Monotype is a wonder of mechanics and engineering and in this film you will see the process of manufacturing the Monotype keyboard and composition caster from beginning to end.
- E4: Monotype: Monotype School Story (2026-03-01) — This film was created to convince printing and typesetting shops to send their employees to the school to learn Monotype skills.
After a strange—and quite romantically awkward—beg
- E5: Monotype: Monotype Casting Good Type (2026-03-08) — Has your Monotype ever produced low-quality type and you can’t figure out why? This film was created to show you how to properly maintain your Monotype Casting Machine to cast perf
- E6: Monotype: Modules Make Sense (2026-03-15) — Monotype made this film to showcase their newer, computer technologies that were finally coming to the market in the late 1960s. Based on the idea of modules which could be interch
- E7: Monotype: Stay Put! The Use of a Revolutionary Darkroom Camera (2026-03-22) — The ‘Rotadon’ darkroom camera from Monotype’s subsidiary, Pictorial Machinery Limited, is a revolutionary, new camera made for photographing, enlarging and reducing, and creating p
- E8: Monotype: ‘Monophoto’ Filmsetting Machine (2026-03-29) — This film showcases Monotype’s answer to the upcoming phototypesetting revolution. They take great pains to show how little has changed from the old, hot-metal Monotype machines by
- E9: Monotype: Getting to Know Monophoto Filmsetters (2026-04-05) — Learn all about the ‘Monophoto’ Filmsetter from Monotype. This machine attempts to bridge the gap in typesetting from the hot metal machines to the “new and exciting” world of phot
- E10: Monotype: A Monotype Composing Machine (2026-04-12) — This silent film starts with a brief overview of the Monotype Works buildings as well as the company homes for workers. See hundreds of Monotypes being built in the factory from ra
Printing & Journalism Films
- E1: Graphic Communications: We Used to Call it Printing (2026-02-08) — Starting out with the funkiest song the late 1960s could create, the film shows a fashion photo shoot for the title screen of the film. It shows all of the processes involved in ma
- E2: Hot Line to Profit (2026-02-15) — Are you a printer, typesetter, binder, screen printer, or image scanner in need of help with technical problems and are your shirt collars wide-enough to prove that it is the 1970s
- E3: Type Speaks (2026-02-22) — For anyone interested in seeing the entire process of type manufacturing, this is one of the best films made.
Created by the American Type Founders Company, this film features the
- E4: From Hot Metal to Cold Type (2026-03-01) — This film was created by the International Typographic Union to encourage their members to become more comfortable with the new “Cold Type” technology revolutionizing the typesetti
- E5: I.T.U. Electronic Progress (2026-03-08) — A film created by the International Typographic Union to display the advancing electronic technology being introduced to typesetting and printing. It specifically demonstrates “A S
- E6: Special to the Times (2026-03-15) — A film created by The New York Times to show how the newspaper goes from idea to printed product in 1982. With A.M. Rosenthal as the Executive Editor, they show the meeting of edit
- E7: The Wide Window of Mr. Malone (2026-03-22) — “George Malone sees the world through many windows” but the window that allows him to see the most is his daily newspaper The New York Times. The film tracks back the history of th
- E8: You and the World of Print (2026-03-29) — “Where does print come from?” is the question asked at the beginning of the film and it attempts to show the process of printing from press to final product. Using a few of the Kim
- E9: Communications the Printed World (2026-04-05) — Using the Kimberly-Clark Corporation “Graphic Communications Through the Ages” series of oil paintings, this film goes through the history of printing starting with paper making in
- E10: Hand Composition at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (2026-04-12) — This silent, black & white training film was created for The Lakeside Press in Chicago, Illinois. Using title cards, the film shows the step-by-step method of properly assembling h
- E11: Printing Through the Ages (2026-04-19) — A very easy to understand and simplified explanation of how printing began. The film starts with the beginning of writing and continues to tell the story of printing including Gute
- E12: The Art and Technique of Photoengraving (2026-04-26) — This film, created by Horan Engraving, shows the entire process of photoengraving. Starting with taking a photo, it shows camera work, engraving, etching, plate preparation, touch-
- E13: The Manhattan Alphabetical Phone Directory (2026-05-03) — This silent, black & white film was made as an in-house film for the New York Telephone Company and shows the process of updating the Manhattan telephone directory daily and then i
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Printing Films have? 3 season(s) with 31 episodes.
Where can I watch Printing Films? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
