Gordon Ryan director of design, printing and fulfillment services for the New York State Bar Association brings several lifetimes’ worth of experience to a brand new in-plant facility.

By Mike Llewellyn

After a stint training with the Army Reserves at Fort Eustis, in Newport News, Va., he left the small print shop behind and took on his first position at a major commercial operation, Spencer Press in Wells, Maine. (Privately held Spencer was acquired by RR Donnelly in 2005.) The direct mail and catalog printer had a nine-acre production floor where a suite of Heidelberg Harris web presses was humming 24 hours a day.