Mark McCarty: A Road Well Traveled
Though he started working in print shops at an early age, Mark McCarty’s career took a different direction for many years before he finally returned to the print world.
McCarty began his printing career when he was just 16, working at a local mom-and-pop shop called Hutto Printing in his hometown of Winfield, Kansas.
"I worked mainly in the darkroom, but I did deliveries as well," says McCarty. "I took pride in the craftsmanship that was still part of the printing industry at the time before computers." Not that he has anything against computers; McCarty just yearns for the days when printing was done with your hands and your head and no computers were involved. For example, he used to hand set type for funeral announcements on a letterpress, a job he enjoyed. When he was with friends and saw a sign that he'd helped print, he would proudly tell them "Hey, I did that."
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