WEB OFFSET REPORT -- Back to the Future

Instead, he heard about a job for a pressman at the Nelson Doubleday Printing Co. It was here that he found his new love, and it would be an affair that would span the next 44 years of his life.

A contact at Doubleday eventually led him to a position as a color photographer with McCall's Printing in Dayton, OH. Basore then moved to Graphic Arts of Ohio, in Toledo, OH, to become one of the first electronic color scanner operators in the country. In 1968, he joined DuPont as a graphic arts technical specialist. Basore would eventually serve as DuPont's proofing markets regional specialist and industry relations coordinator.