Day with a Pro: Dick Marsel, Printing Manager, Quad/Graphics

At the last stage before they go out the door, skids of finished books are held in another vast warehouse, in 17,000 cells—in what’s called the VNA (very narrow aisle) racking system.

It’s all linear, this manufacturing process, all logically pointing toward the roughly 700 tractor-trailers that will take the catalogs into the postal stream.