Like many printers in the mid 1970’s, Bob Utley, then president of Utley Brothers Printing, collaborated with printers in the region on various printed projects.  The printing community in the region was small and close-knit; a healthy mix of competition and community. Years later, opportunities increased and along with it, the number of printers in the region; seemingly exponentially. Collaboration and community ebbed and flowed with opportunity multiplied by the increased number of printers.  However, the most recent economic downturn, the worst in generations, claimed many of those companies.  And out of the economic ashes has risen a renewed sense of community and collaboration.    

In 1977 Utley Brothers’ specialty was (and still is) business cards, Bob established a more robust wholesale channel to support other printers.  With a deep heritage of printing for the trade, characterized by an assurance that relationships are respected, Utley Brothers began printing for other printers more formally by producing a catalog; featuring a handful of standard inks, typefaces and stocks.