Running a Growing In-plant

“Printing seems to be pretty good whether the economy is slow or not,” he says. So even though he attended Golden West College, in Huntington Beach, Calif., as an automotive engineering student, he immediately began taking graphic arts classes.

Delgado ran the press in the college’s print shop, and upon graduation his teacher recommended him for his first full-time job as press operator for a commercial shop. In 1984 he took a job as pressman for Western Growers, but only stayed there a year before accepting a job running a four-color press for a large commercial printer. During this time, he did some moonlighting with Kenny the Printer, a local quick printer. He also did the occasional odd job for Western Growers.