Pitch perfect: printing supplies

As the Pitch Perfect series continues, today we feature a 1949 collection of advertising slogans used to market printing supplies and services.

After all, ink makes the picture (Sigmund Ullman & Co.), Inks.
An institution that sticks to its last (Traung Label & Lithograph Co.).

Better product deserves a better label, A (American Press).

Circular printers of the nation (Everybody’s Publishing Co.), Buffalo.
Color, the master salesman (Franklin Process Co.), Providence.

Everything for lithography (Excelsior transfer), Paper.

Familiar name of national fame, A (Printing Machinery Co.).
For the betterment of newspaper advertising (Gagnier Steretype Foundry).
Foundation blocks of profitable printing (Printing Machinery Co.).
From design to distribution (Tudor Press, Inc.), Boston.

If it’s a candy wrapper, we make it (L. A. Liebs Co.).
Inspiration for printers.
It’s a challenge (Challenge Machinery Co.), Grand Haven, Mich.

Labels of character (Atlas Label Co.), Chicago.
Largest plate makers in the world (Rapid electrotypes).
Let blue prints tell your story (C. F. Pease Co.).

Made its way by the way it’s made (Intertype Corp.).
Multiple copy forms for profit preservation (Malady & MacLauchlan).

Never a dull moment (Reflecto Letters, Inc.).
Nothing to sell but service (Franklin Linotype Co.).

Outward sign of inward quality (labels), Calvert Litho Co.

Packaging headquarters to American industry (Milprint, Inc.), Printers.
Perfect set-up for a set up that is perfect, A (Baltimore Salesbook Co.).
Picture is the shortest road from the eye to the brain, The (Times Rotogravure).
Pioneer process plate makers (Electro-Tint Engraving Co.).
Printing with a personal appeal (Advertising Supply Co.).
Printing with a plus (Francis Emory Fitch, Inc.).

Qualities to the last impression (Standard Ink & Color Co.).

Risky to pay less, needless to pay more (National Printing Co.), Memphis.
Rush jobs are a special delight (Big Six Press), Scranton.

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