AJ IMAGES--All in the Family

In 1979, the Greebels purchased one of twin side-by-side, 5,000-square-foot buildings to house Whitcomb. Eight years later, they acquired the neighboring building for Dimensional.

Trying Times for Type
But the typography industry began to die out in the late 1980s and, to counter the decline in business, Dimensional became one of the first prepress firms in New Jersey to install desktop equipment. While the new technology helped to rejuvenate profits at first, by 1992 Whitcomb accounted for 60 percent of the businesses' annual volume.