From January 26 to April 16, 2023 The Puçol School Museum preserves in its funds a large collection of highly valuable pieces of graphic arts, among which the Model-5 Linotype, manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype CO. stands out. New York, U.S.A. for Sociedad Linotype Española S.A. (Madrid), a model that dates from the early years of the 20th century. This is the central piece of the space in this exhibition, which aims to represent the process of creating a newspaper until the end of the 20th century. The linotype is a machine invented by the German watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, which revolutionized the printing industry because it created the original text written by the journalist in lead lines, a job that until then had to be done manually by picking up handwriting. letter. He cast the texts in complete lines, each forming a single block or metal ingot. Once cooled, the ingots went to the composition workshop, where the typesetters would assemble the complete sheets of the newspaper. A cardboard mold was made from this composition with which a new curved-shaped molten lead plate was drawn, which was passed to the rotary press and printed on paper. Few inventions have been so successful and at the same time have such a short life, since the linotype went down in history with the advent of offset technology, which in the case of Diario Información was introduced in 1980, closing the linotype and compositor workshop. together with the old newsroom on Calle Poeta Quintana, to open new facilities on Avenida Doctor Rico in Alicante. El Diario Información, a reference newspaper in our province in the last eight decades, began its journey in 1941 as a newspaper of the National Movement. From their small newsroom, a few journalists faced the feat of covering news from an entire province. In a post-war period in which resources were practically nil, the workshop had only three linotypes, an adjustment plate and a small rotary press, which made it possible to produce a newspaper of only four pages, yes, a broadsheet size. Gradually, the number of pages increased to eight, sixteen... It was not until after a fire suffered in the workshops in 1965, that the technical structure of the newspaper was completely renewed, acquiring new linotypes, up to a total of fifteen, and a new rotary that allowed thirty-two pages and a print run of ten thousand copies per hour. The link with Elche has been evident since the beginning of the newspaper, with correspondents who wrote from here for the Alicante newsroom. Under the direction of a young Félix Morales, the first local branch of the newspaper was opened in Elche, in 1970, and some time later its own edition was launched, different from the one in Alicante. In 1984, once democracy was established, the State Social Communication Media Chain was liquidated, and the newspaper was privatized. Technological advancement had already left the old printing shop outdated. Of those fifteen linotypes, few have reached our days, this one that we are exhibiting was donated to the Puçol School Museum by the Generalitat Valenciana in November 2004. It came from the now-defunct ethnological exhibition located in the premises of the current Arniches Theater in Alicante.