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Phillips Graphic Finishing, Inc.
Distance: 14.0 MiRapho Business Park, 150 Arrowhead Dr.
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Fox Group, Inc.
Distance: 56.6 Mi2345 Milford Square Pike
18951-2232 Quakertown
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Graphic Crafts Inc. has been part of the Lancaster County business community for more than 80 years. The company's founder, Richard E. Huss, Sr., began his career in the printing industry at the age of 13 as an apprentice typesetter for the Lancaster Intelligencer Newspaper. In 1925, while only 16 years old, he bought his first printing press, which was small enough to place on the dresser in his bedroom at his parents' home. He used this small machine to begin a side business called Graphic Crafts Shop while becoming a journeyman typesetter. Over the years, the business became a full-time venture for Richard and he passed along his love of printing and typesetting to his son, Richard E. Huss, Jr. W hile serving on the USS Quincy during the Korean War, Dick Jr. was the ship's pressman. When he returned home to Lancaster in 1956, he began his own business, Lancaster Carbon Forms. Several years later, father and son joined businesses together to become Graphic Crafts, Inc. As offset printing was taking off in the industry, the company chose to stick with letterpress and focus more on the bindery. Eventually, Graphic Crafts took the ink rollers off its presses and became a full-service trade bindery. Located on Beaver Valley Pike (Rt. 222) south of Lancaster in Willow Street, Pa., the company now offers folding, perforating, stitching, die cutting, stamping, embossing, trimming, gluing, gumming, mounting, shrink wrapping, laminating, padding, drilling, punching, round...