Joe Metzger of Metzgers Printing + Mailing is a 2010 Printing Industry Hall of Fame Inductee

By Erik Cagle

On the Show Circuit

Make no mistake about it, Joe Metzger loves going to Chicago for GRAPH EXPO and PRINT shows. They're not the only graphic arts shows attended by the president of Toledo, OH-based Metzgers Print + Mailing, but they're certainly among his favorites. It's also not surprising to see Metzger talking on printer panels during educational sessions.

Metzger takes to information like a Kardashian sister takes to Rodeo Dr. If he's not doling out information to fellow printers, he's absorbing the latest on printing technologies, ancillary offerings and shifting market trends.

"My brother Tom and I are constantly curious about what's next," Joe Metzger says. "We always wonder what we're going to see at the next GRAPH EXPO. During my senior year of high school in 1982, my dad took my two brothers and me to a TypeX show in Chicago. We drove there for four hours, spent eight hours at the show, then drove back four hours."

Now that's a long day.

"Ever since 1982, there hasn't been a year where we haven't gone to a trade show of some type," he adds. "We took 12 people to the PRINT show last year."

In the Charles   Dickens classic "A   Christmas Carol," there is a scene where Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past observe a young Ebeneezer and his co-worker gushing about their great employer, Mr. Fezziwig, during a holiday party decades earlier.

The Ghost feigns indifference, asking why a meager investment of three or four British pounds for an office party makes Mr. Fezziwig worthy of such high praise. Scrooge quickly rushes to Fezziwig's defense:

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