The original Compugraphic typesetting machine.

Since 1981 Creative Juices has been creating dynamic and professional logos, websites, brochures, business cards, postcards and any other kind of graphic design imaginable. Check out our website to see what we’ve done and how we can help you achieve business success.

How did the Creative Juices design factory get started?
It was a bright and shiny January morning in 1981 when I applied for the Creative Juices business license. At least I think it was bright and shiny. If not, it should have been.

I bought my reconditioned blue Compugraphic typesetting machine with matching blue processor. The technology was stunning. You could see a whole line of type whizzing by on the led monitor. The display showed ALL CAPS with up and down arrows indicating upper and lower case characters. Individual typefaces were on filmstrips that were loaded into the typesetter. Then the text was “photographed” onto typesetting paper which had to be developed like film. When dried, the type had to be waxed on the back for pasting up onto artboards. There was an art to cutting type out with an “X-acto” knife. If you accidentally cut the type you had to reset it and develop it and dry it and wax it and then cut and paste it all over again.

Drafting was the way to go.
A drafting table, Rapidograph ink pens, triangles, T-square, rulers and I was all set to design. There were mylar overlays, veloxes, color separations, and negs. Anyone remember ruby lith? She was expensive and fun to work with. Useful for masking images too.

It was great being one of the elite few who could not only design but produce camera ready artwork. Ah, the days of typsetting and developing film and prints. Remember paste up? And hand inking of forms? Yes, we used rulers and triangles and t-squares. If you were really advanced you had a mechanical drafting machine.

As the years went by the typesetting machine grew more complex and costly. Leasing a Compugraphic typesetting machine was a major undertaking. Those things cost tens of thousands of dollars. More than a car at that time.

Then came the PC.
Apple Computer came into existance and changed my whole world as well as the graphic arts industry.

Check back to see what exciting things happened when the Apple Computer came on the scene and changed the graphic arts field forever. Honest, there will be more details soon.