This photograph is of Dave Vandercook, Deceased daughter Barbara Helene and His surving daughter Ann and two of her 4 children. Ann’s surviving children are Joann Moulton, Barbara Belle Moulton, Joseph Sidney Moulton III, Helen Marie Moulton Died Feb 3, 2006.

Edward J. Nolan (1907-1983) was an RIT-trained engineer who founded both the Nolan Corporation, maker of Nolan proof presses, and later the United States Forge and Foundry Co., the maker of Reprex proof presses. The Nolan Corp., based in Rome NY, made composing room and bindery equipment for the newspaper industry. They also built food [...]

Robert Oatman Vandercook, (1866-1951), was the founder of the pre-press equipment company that bore his name. His interest in printing began when he was ten years old. It was claimed that in high school he built his first press on which he printed the school paper.* While a student at Northwestern University (class of 1888), [...]

Edward Oatman Vandercook (1897-1985) was the eldest son of company founder R.O. Vandercook. After discharging from the military in 1918, he along his brothers Fred and Dave began working for their father. The elder Vandercook retired by 1940 and E.O. Vandercook, who was general manager, became president and headed the company until it was sold [...]

No long ago I interviewed Stanley A. Metza, West coast regional sales manager for Vandercook from 1960 to 1975. Now 94 years old, he spoke of heading a four man sales team selling Vandercook products from the “30-26″:http://vandercookpress.info/years54-09.html#30-26 four-color proof press to the SP15 which he deemed “a pup.” The son of Polish immigrants, the [...]

Today I spoke by telephone with former Vandercook and Sons employee Bill Critchlow who worked for there from 1961 to 1971. While a student at the University of Arizona, Mr. Critchlow met his future wife Lynn, daughter of company president E.O. Vandercook. After marrying, he attended dental school at the University of Pittsburgh. Afterward he [...]

Many Vandercook owners remember Gene Wenderski, the last Vandercook trained maintenance person at Vandersons, the predecessor company to NA Graphics. Gene literally disappeared in the summer of 1996 as we were buying NA Graphics and numerous attempts to find him failed. It was a sense of great frustration for me as one of the selling [...]