My name is Marc
I've been in the printing industry for 40 of my 53 years. Dad bought a small Newspaper/Job shop in Idaho when I was 13. It was all letterpress. The newspaper was printed on a Lee 2 revolution hand fed press. Stood there for hours stream feeding 24 x 36 sheets of newsprint. We called it our "tri-weekly, if we didn't get it out this week, we'll try next."
I've been the owner of a small commercial printing plant in the middle of Lake Superior for 21 years. Before that, I worked at a commercial shop and an inplant shop in Colorado.
My current situation requires me to design, typeset, make negs, make plates, sometimes run a press, do most of the bindery and deliver the jobs. At least I don't get bored doing the same thing over and over.
We're just starting to get into CTP. I bought a used Rip-It VM-4 (Xante now makes these). It looks like I have everything communicating okay, just need to get some plates in here and see if the laser is actually imaging them.
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