2006 PRINTING INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME — KEEPER OF THE FLAME

“He used to say that the way to manage a printing company was to hold it in the palm of your hand,” Quadracci says of his father, who passed away in 1999. “That influenced my management style of always wanting to be out on the shop floor, and letting everyone in the plant know what is happening.”

Tom Quadracci is involved with Waukesha County Technical College, which in recent years has built the Harry V. Quadracci Printing & Graphics Center, and has plans for an applied technologies center for the printing industry. It is his hope to make Waukesha, WI, the “Silicon Valley of the printing industry.” He is also on the board of directors at Carroll College, which has developed printing management programs.