Jeremy’s path to printing started in an unusual way. As a skateboarder in southern California, he and his buddy wanted to see each other in cool skateboarding photos. That led him to a photography class where he learned about fill and darkrooms. He’s still got that photography bug. An injury ended his original career path of building guitars, and an aptitude test pointed him to the printing industry. His first Job in the industry was at a PIP franchise in Beverly Hills. Proximity to family has always been important to Jeremy, and his vocation kept him employed from time in Mississippi to Colorado, back to California, and finally right here in Reno, Nevada. He learned a little more with each move. He did prepress work in Reno for several great companies, moving on when the recession or pandemic left him no choice. He really found his home as a pre-press foreman at A. Carlisle and Company. He loved working at one of the oldest companies in Nevada and the oldest printing companies in the West. “The place was like a museum!” His work at Reno Type brings together lots of his experience. Here, he runs digital presses, does variable data programming, and prepress work. He also gets to hang out with fellow luthier (and bindery foreman) Brad Mathaney.
What makes Jeremy the Reno type?
Jeremy loves the geography and the history of our region. The mountains and what they do to the clouds and skies in Western Nevada are hard to beat. “It’s probably my photography background that makes me love that so much,” he says. And history? As a printer… how cool is it that Mark Twain was a printer just up the hill?