As a printer’s son, I have been around the printing industry my whole life. When I was younger, I tended to take ‘the role that printers’ have played in the world’ for granted. Now, my apathy has shifted to enthusiasm for what sparked the Age of Information — which is printing.

Printing changed the world

In fact, printing has been regarded as an important factor in the evolution and creation of the modern world. Printing has changed the way we have communicated with each other, not unlike what the internet has done for us today.

Before printing there were specially trained people called scribes who would spend hours handwriting pages to be provide a written history, to be read later.

Could you imagine if all of the written material known to man was handwritten!

Now almost every word you read is either seen on the printed page, printed by a printer, or seen on the computer screen, just waiting to be printed by pressing two buttons, CTRL/Command P, or Print!

Technology changed printing

Like many industries today, printing has been influenced by modern technology.

At Hucul Printing, we have adapted to changing technologies in order to stay competitive.

A good example of these types of adaptations is what we call the short-run printing jobs. Before the use of digital technology, we exclusively used the big, industrial grade printing presses to print business cards.

However, in order to make these runs affordable to our customer,  we would have to run 500 to 1,000+ business cards at a time.

Now, times being different, it isn’t unusual for us to run 100 business cards, at a time, by using digital technology on digital presses.

This new technology has made printing business  cards, brochures, and pamphlets more affordable to our customers than ever before.

Printing is still necessary

Printing has gone through many changes since the mid 1400s and is still relevant today. Consider that printed material still serves the people of Salmon Arm, British Columbia and Canada, in ways that simply cannot be replaced.