Technology  October 1, 1996

Technology: Printers’ friend or foe?

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By Dan Whipple

BOULDER — Faster. Better. Riskier. High tech. Fast paced.

It isn’t the B-1 Bomber. It’s the printing industry, which has seen its business change at breakneck speed for the last 25 years with no letup in sight.

Bob Stoker, president and owner of Boulder-based March Press, says, “The technology rages on … It’s a very difficult thing to determine when to jump into technological change.”

Stoker said, “When we first started in, we had hot lead and a Linotype department. That was in 1974. Since then, we’ve gone through phototypesetters. We’ve gone into typesetting primarily being done on a Macintosh, and…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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