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Getting started

Dunphy got an early view of the tag and label industry when his father left his job at IBM to buy a small printing company in 1977. Dunphy was just eight years old; so "I think it's safe to say I grew up in the company," he says. He did odd jobs starting at about age 10, which included cleaning the office and later worked summers in the pressroom running rewinders and doing various other jobs. Even then however, he didn't see the printing industry as his calling. "At that time I really never saw it as something I was going to do for many years; I just saw it as a way to make some extra spending money."