The launching of Anchorage Printing came in 1953 with the acquisition of the Anchorage Times' old commercial printing equipment. The equipment consisted of two ancient linotype machines (capable of setting six lines of type a minute); a Kelly B flat sheet press (it could print two tabloid pages at a time); a Kluge automatic press and a hand fed Chandler Price press (now found only in museums) for business cards and minor jobs.

With a staff of three, the shop took up residence in the basement of a former night club, The South Seas, at the corner of Fourth Avenue and G Street. In December of 1966 we moved to the "suburbs" at 3110 Spenard Road, into a 50 by 120 foot concrete block structure. With the new building, we installed the first rotary offset printing press in Anchorage. A three unit Goss Communit press and folder allowed us to print a 24 page tabloid in a single run without having to hand gather and fold.

Today, the crew of three has grown to over thirty and Anchorage Printing, Inc. takes great pride in its employees.