As part of our Flashback Friday series, here's another installment of the once-popular column that was written by Otto Boutin, which appeared monthly several years ago in Printing Impressions. If there's a lesson here, it's the necessity to evolve your skill sets to keep pace with technology. But, with that said, industry change doesn't always occur as fast as many people might think.
Otto Boutin
Mark Michelson is the Editor-in-Chief of Printing Impressions. Serving in this role since 1985, Michelson is an award-winning journalist and member of several industry honor societies. Reader feedback is always encouraged. Email mmichelson@napco.com
EDITOR’S NOTE: This fictional piece was written by the late Otto Boutin, a longtime Printing Impressions contributor who penned stories about the old “tramp” printers who traveled the country, moving from job to job in search of adventure and a better life. A poet in a printer’s apron, his monthly column was a popular mainstay in this publication for several years. MARVIN WAS one of the most kind-hearted men I’ve ever known. When he caught a butterfly, he always let it go, believing that life in any form was extremely precious. He was one of those lonely printers who wander across the country, living
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