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Colleagues Mourn Gordon MacQuaker

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gordon R. MacQuaker, 93, of Boynton Beach, FL, passed away on July 16, 2007.     Mr. MacQuaker was among the key figures who built Sun Chemical Corporation into the largest company in the ink industry. He joined the ink industry in 1933 as a color matcher at Capitol Printing Ink, and moved to General Printing Ink (GPI), which would later become Sun Chemical, as a laboratory technician in 1941. In 1963, when Sun Chemical was still a $25 million company, Mr. MacQuaker was among the leaders promote...

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