PRINTING INDUSTRY VETERANS — LASTING IMPRESSIONS

His most dubious memory involves the decommissioning of Artcraft’s first offset press, which saw service during World War II as an Army map press. The machine, which would routinely set registration at one of two places on the sheet—nearly a half-inch apart—was somewhat less than graceful.

“This press was just a great big piece of dung,” Mikalson recalls. “Before we took it down, every person who ever worked on it got to take a shot at it with a sledgehammer.”