21st century technology enables us to offer more convenience for the customer by using electronic file transfers. Every week we send and receive many graphic files from other publications and printers saving time and money. Contact us for more information on this service.

The printing industry has changed significantly since 1960 and we can assure you it will continue to do so into the future. But this has not always been the case. From the time of Gutenberg, for nearly four hundred years, no improvement was made over his method of hand assembling and distributing moveable type.

In 1886 the first commercial application of the linotype machine was made in the offices of the New York Tribune, the Chicago News, and the Louisville Courier-Journal. The implementation of these or similar slug casting and typecasting machines changed typesetting from a tedious hand operation to a rapid keyboard process. this, along with the introduction of power presses made possible larger circulations of inexpensive publications.

Other than these major improvements, the state-of-the-art advanced slowly as time passed. Most small shops across the countryside were considered "state-of-the-art" if they had at their disposal automatic presses and Linotypes, or similar machines. There was simply nothing better available.

This was the state of affairs in 1960 when Glen Press was established in Lincoln. We can remember, in those days, when offset was only a dirty word to most printers, and rightly so, as it was basically in the experimental stage. Offset work produced by small shops, was no better than mimeo or copier quality. There was no typesetting equipment available for offset work with the exception of perhaps beefed-up typewriters.

A few years after 1960, when offset came of age, we introduced it here at Glen Press along with our letterpress facilities. We have been adding new processes and improvements ever since to fill our customers needs.

In these past 47 years we have developed deep roots in the area. Our job files are a virtual history of the area's business activity. Samples of work performed for many businesses who are no longer around makes one realize the enormous changes the area has experienced in these short 47 years; from the Franconia Paper Co., our largest account in the beginning, to the numerous new developments and establishments in the area today.

Glen Press is the only printing establishment remaining in business within the White Mountain area under the same ownership and trade name that it started with in 1960.

It is felt this is largely due to our many dedicated and experienced employees and the maintenance of our state-of-the art position in the trade, in many cases being the first plant in the area to introduce a new technology. (an example being our introduction of digital typesetting several years ago, enabling us to maintain our position.) We are using the latest high speed computers and electronic file transfers between customers and our graphics department.

We would like to thank all our many loyal and successful customers for these 47 years and pledge to do our best to meet their requirements in the future.