Pauline Gindlesperger Retires After 77 Years in the Print Industry

His mother remembers the print industry before the benefits of e-mail, the Internet, digital photography, digital printing or even photocopying:

• Every proof had to be snail mailed, hand delivered or picked up.
• Communications was by landline phones or in person.
• Edits often required someone with a steady hand cutting out copy with an XACTO knife and then pasting down the correction.
• Photos were processed in darkrooms using chemicals.
• Faxes were sent using landline phones that required synchronization by the sender and the receiver.
• U. S. mail was the way to send and receive letters and packages.

She also recalls when the print industry embraced large rotary presses that could print millions of copies a day. The rotary press feeds a continuous stream of paper through drum-shaped cylinders and was much cheaper to operate than any of its predecessors.