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| Born in a basement as a family business in 1981, Bauer Dunham & Barr started out doing print production, newsletter publishing, and mail order fulfillment. Early customers included a health/lifestyle marketing firm, a document security company, and the University of Michigan athletic department. In those ancient, 20th century days, work was done by driving across town with a floppy disk to get type "galleys" run out at a service bureau, then "keylining" the print onto bristol board with sticky wax or rubber cement. Exacto knives, T-squares, and non-repro blue pens were the tools of the trade. BDB soon expanded, adding outside talent and moving into office/studio space do-it-yourselfed in a warehouse upstairs from a printing plant. We took a major capital equipment step, enabling us to run out our own type from files generated on Compugraphic typesetting computers, with Ann Arbor's first WYSIWYG monitor. Photography in 35mm and medium formats added another service to our lineup. |
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