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Edward Evans, printing pioneer, dead at 81

An influential pioneer in the printing sector recently died after suffering health issues related to a stroke.

Edward Evans, a Pittsburgh native, passed away at the age of 81 having spent decades helping the industry to innovate and progress. He began his career at the Miller Printing Machinery Company in Pittsburgh and spent the next quarter century there. In 1977, he went to Carnegie Mellon University and restarted its Printing Management Program, which had not been in place since 1964. He was quick to see the value of computers in printing and was an early adopter of the technology. 

"Our goal is to prepare managers capable of adapting to future technological developments by providing the students with thorough backgrounds in management science and computer-based graphic communications systems," he is quoted as saying in 1977, as reported by What They Think.

What began as a simple process has been changed forever thanks to technology. In his lifetime, Evans saw the printing industry change from a simple one to one that included web-to-print and other technology.