Scouting Out The Right Path

Baltimore Beginnings

Neither of those technologies were around back when Mettee got his first job handling prepress at a Maryland payroll processing company. He eventually moved to a weekly newspaper, The Aegis, where he spent three years running a web press.

A friend had moved to Dallas and urged the 23-year-old Mettee to join him, so in 1981, he pulled up his stakes and relocated. He remembers showing up in his suit for an interview at Arlington Printers, where he was promptly asked if he could start immediately.