PRINTING INDUSTRY VETERANS — LASTING IMPRESSIONS

It was the late 1950s and Vendl—the ink still wet in his high school yearbook—went to work for Photopress in Broadview, IL. He was imposing a 750-page book and had a field of negatives lined up on the light table.

“I was just starting the job when I spilled a cup of coffee all over it,” Vendl confesses. “So we had to take all the negatives, which were already cut into single pages, and throw them back into the bath in the camera department. They had to be cleaned off, dried and retouched. That took a couple of days, and I thought it would end my career.”