Scouting Out The Right Path

"I was trying to get in the automotive class, and that filled up," he recalls. "My second alternative was printing."

So he signed up—and quickly discovered he had a knack for it.

"I graduated at the top of my printing class," Mettee says. "It came so naturally to me."

That natural talent propelled him through a series of printing jobs, finally bringing him to the Boy Scouts of America's Printing Solutions department, where Mettee, 44, now serves as manager. Since advancing to that position, he has brought in computer-to-plate (CTP) technology and helped move the 10-employee in-plant to a complete PDF workflow.