Hi, this is Frank Romano for WhatTheyThink.com.  The other day I found a copy of the program for the 35th anniversary convention of the NAPL then called the National Association of Photo Lithographers, now called National Association for Printing Leadership and in 2012 it will be the 35th anniversary of this anniversary and in their exhibit they had a number of companies.  I thought just very quickly who is still around.  Well AGFA is still around.  Some of the chemical companies are gone.  Baldwin is still around.  Some of the—there are almost no paper companies who exhibited.  Warren was the only company that exhibited at that point in time.  You have all the traditional companies from the printing side of the industry, Royal Zenith, Heidelberg.  Royal Zenith was a supplier of Czechoslovakian presses.  AB Dick of course, Townsend, the company that made that little attachment for the second color, Eastman Kodak. 

Polychrome is here, but they were absorbed into Kodak.  3M’s division for printing was absorbed into Kodak.  Kodak I think absorbed 11 companies over the years involved in the printing industry in one manner or another.  Many of the magazines are still here.  It was called “Inland Printer” then, now called “American Printer”.  “Printing Impressions” was there, but “Graphic Arts Monthly” was not, which is rather interesting.  Of course “Graphic Arts Monthly” is now gone.  You have a number of companies that make processes like Chemco and Kreonite.  You’ll remember some of those companies.  Some of the camera companies like Brown is here.  Macbeth is there, by the way, Macbeth a major force in color today.  Pitman as a supplier was there and now part of AGFA, Pitney Bowes and Melon Howell [ph], the companies that are involved in mailing because printers did mailing even then.  Graphics Arts Technical Foundation was there.  RIT was an exhibitor.

But the most interesting one of all, the last name on the list, the last name on the list, Xerox.  They had just introduced the 914 copier and they saw this as a device for replication and it would go into small print shops and the APL was a combination of small and larger printing organizations.  The 35th anniversary was 1967.  It was held in Boston at the Sheraton Boston.  That hotel had almost just been born at that point in time.  It had just been built.  It was right next door to the war memorial and the auditorium now called the Hines Auditorium and many of the luminaries of the industry were there.  Mike Bruno chaired a panel on technology.  He was at GATF at that point.  It doesn’t list all the people, but it lists their past presidents and these are some of the people who helped to build this organization into the major organization it is and one of the most interesting things is dues.  If you have a 1722 press it was $20 per press for membership or $60 per year was the minimum dues.  If your press was larger than 35 by 45 it was $50 per press per year, so oh, a maximum of $500 per year. 

So coming up on the 35th anniversary of the 35th anniversary of the NAPL.  Thank you very much.