pP's 2002 TLMI Converter of the Year

According to Martin, the industry was just getting started about this time. "I made a living, not money," he says. Eventually however, the business grew and prospered to a four-press operation.

The mid-1970s found Martin itching for a new entrepreneurial opportunity. It was also a time of personal challenges, as his first wife passed away and eventual remarriage brought together a blended family of four children. In 1976, he decided to sell his stake in Cal Tape & Label to his two partners, and after one visit to Portland, Ore., moved his family to the area to start a new printing company called LabelGraphics.