Jim Lyons was in his last year of high school when he took his first print shop class. He was immediately hooked. "I spent more time there than I did at home," he recalls. And so his passion for printing was born - a passion he still enjoys 42 years later as manager of Print & Mail Services at the State University of New York (SUNY)at New Paltz. Growing up in Astoria, NY., and later Dover Plains, NY, when his family moved, Lyons didn't waste much time getting his career started after graduating in 1979. "I graduated on a Saturday, had a party, and was working full time in a print shop in town the following Monday," he says. Lyons went to work for a friend's family-owned print shop. Two months later his father "went to the town nearby, to one of the biggest print shops he could find," Lyons says. "He said 'you have to hire him, or you 11 close,' and they said 'with an offer like that, we have to take him.' I ended up being there for 13 years." While at Eastern Offset, Lyons spent time learning the equipment, and learning the business of running a print shop. At one point, the copy shop that his wife Jean worked in, Copywise, lost its press operator, and she told her boss he could help.
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