Vincent Sneed

Dedicated Prepress Technician with graphic arts background manipulating files for color correction and photo adjustment purposes. Highly proficient in various graphics design software packages. Pursuing challenging new role to leverage 30 years of experience.

I was hired by French-Bray in 1992 by Carmen Strollo, head of the Liaison department. Liaison was created by Mr. Strollo as the link between the Customer Service Representatives and the Color Department, the technological hub of French-Bray's prepress. Mr. Strollo recognized in me a strong interest in the graphic arts and an intuitive grasp of the technology just then becoming inseparable from the printing industry.




Talk about starting off on top! In 1992, French-Bray was the premiere printing company on the East Coast, counting the Baltimore Colts (and, later, the Baltimore Ravens), the Baltimore Orioles, T. Rowe Price, Ryland Home and other prestigious Maryland-based companies among its clients.




I learned my trade at French-Bray and grew along with the company. I lead my department on several large jobs, took on a supervisory role during the introduction of Creo direct-to-plate technology, and worked the front end on the Heidelberg GTO-DI, the first direct-to-press printing press.




In 2001, I was hired by Rainbow Lithography to oversee the introduction and installation of tat company's first direct-to-plate system.




In 2009, I was hired by Doyle Printing & Offset to run their first digital printing press, the humble Oce 665, which I grew to take on the work of two small offset printing presses. When I left Doyle in 2013, I was running a pair of massive Konica-Minolta digital presses, outputting nearly finished work for customers like AFSCME (a DC-based teachers union), American Health Lawyers, embassies, federal agencies and more. My work for Doyle earned that company some Ben Franklin awards from PGAMA, including one for best digital product (a menu for Ledo's Pizza, of all things).




Not too shabby for a kid from Dundalk who took an interest in printing because he wanted to make his own comic books.