2013 Hall of Fame : Frank Defino Sr. - Printing's Heavy Hitter

At Rand McNally, he worked the step-and-repeat machine and would have to pick up many 30x40 chases each day, weighing upwards of 100 pounds because they were glass negatives. "One day, I said to myself, 'I won't be doing this when I'm older,' " he recalls.

Once Defino sat in the captain's chair at Tukaiz, he developed a taste for cutting-edge technology. He took to doing lithographic plates and films for the trade in the 1960s. In the early '70s, he desperately wanted to purchase an electronic scanner, but had to wait until 1978. "We didn't have the bucks to do it, and Schawk ended up getting the first one," he notes.