Planned Museum to Feature ‘Hot Type’ Printing Apparatus

Those in the publishing and graphics arts industries who can still remember hot type emerging from Linotype machines probably would like to see a museum honoring this technology that immediately preceded today’s “cold type” photocomposition era.

There soon will be, with the opening later this summer of the 25,000-square-foot International Museum of Graphic Communication at the Santa Ana (5) and Riverside (91) freeways in Buena Park.

David Jacobson, chairman of the International Museum of Graphic Communication Foundation, said the facility--leased for two years from Abel and Ann Ellingson--will exhibit nearly 100 pieces of historic printing equipment. The $288,000 lease was negotiated by Burke Commercial Real Estate.

Most of the equipment that will be displayed in the facility was donated by Ernest A. Lindner, a Glendale printing firm owner who has a large collection of printing antiques and memorabilia.