Just at the time of the Turnbulls' retirement, offset printing was coming into use. No more did the page forms, heavy with lead, require two persons to carry them to the press. But those of the old school held the "paper, paste, scissors" method in a mild sort of contempt finding it not so clear, not so sharp as the hot type method, doubting it would reach the standard it has today.

The Reporter machinery is the property of the Diagonal Printing Museum, as is the building.
The Mergenthaler linotype, bought rebuilt about 1925 is still operating. The huge and noisy Babcock news press is there, too, giving truth to what an itinerant "tramp" printer said years ago:
"That press will be running long after you and I are gone."
There are cases of hand type, and the Chandler-Price hand-fed job press.

The marble-topped "stones" used as work tables are there too, the inches thick marble grayed by years of printer's ink.
In the early days when an editor or printer died, that marble was often used as his tombstone.
A committee of Diagonal area residents and former residents contributed to the purchase of the Diagonal Reporter Office from Harold and Mildred Turnbull in 1983.