Possible Clues:

• Machine for producing stereotyped lines of print
• Old-fashioned printing machine
• Mergenthaler's kind of floor covering?
• Old printing machine
• Slug expected to speed up printing?
• Perhaps the sort of floor-covering, in short, that's now outof-date
• Old-fashioned sort of a set-up in the Irish Times
• Printing machine
• Pity lone composer no longer fashionable
• Printer's machine -- vandalised it openly