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Spartan Printing: Mountains of paper to magazines
Spartan Printing Co in Sparta Illinois is a major World Color Press plant with 1,500 workers. It operates five plants across Southern Illinois and Merced California, printing about 100 million magazines monthly for titles such as True West and American Handgunner. The Sparta site runs 24 hours daily on offset and letterpress presses, ships per Tuesday through Monday schedule, and handles significant paper stock and distribution to regional distributors and subscribers.
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Ron Poppenhagen
Southern
Illinois
Spartan Printing Co
Firm
Made
Sparta
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Merced
Calif
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Spartan
Southern Illinois
Patton
World Color Press
World’s Fair Color Printing
TV Guide
Salem
Spartan Printing
Sparta Post Office