At the turn of the year Largs Printing Company celebrated 40 years in business.
The company was formed as a result of the Largs and Millport Weekly News closing its production plant at 120 Main Street, Largs and moving to the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald's new print plant in Herald Street, Ardrossan.
Two employees saw the opportunity to continue the printing facility in Largs and, in late 1969, Tom McCaw and Allister McGregor created a partnership to form LPC.
Tom and Allister re-opened the "wee" paper's former premises and set about sourcing typesetting and printing machinery from various suppliers in Glasgow.
Largs Printing Company launched on 4th January 1970 and immediately businesses and clubs in Largs supported the new venture.
In those early days all printing was done by the traditional Letterpress system and in 1974 the company bought its first Offset Litho machine. This proved to be a timely purchase as in that year not one but two General Elections were held, and the new machine was put to full use in producing all the various leaflets for the candidates.
With the purchase of new machines the production facility was increased and, in 1985, Billy Winning joined the partnership.
The 1980s saw the start of the digital revolution in printing and Largs Printing Company responded to this challenge by upgrading its machinery: the first computer-controlled typesetting machine arrived in 1981 allowing larger and more complicated colour work to be printed.
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