Invention of the Telephone Alexander Graham Bell tested a new transmitter with Thomas A. Watson who clearly heard Bell say from an adjoining room, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!"
Prior to the turn of the Twentieth Century, William Morgan Castle started Castle Printing in a three-room basement in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The year was 1888 when he began business with two one-color presses and a type case holding a few fonts of type. The entire staff was made up of three people; Castle, a typesetter and a pressman. Despite these modest beginnings, however, quality was always the benchmark of his work.
From the beginning, Castle-Pierce has lead the way in technology and innovation. In 1899, we installed the first Linotypes in commercial use north of Milwaukee.
The Company name was changed to Castle-Pierce in 1900 when Harry Pierce, Castle's pressroom supervisor and ace pressman, became a partner. The two partners, and later Harry's son Elmer, and Castle's son William Jr., and grandson William Reilly, worked side by side until the death of Elmer Pierce in 1963. That ended the era of Pierces in the operational phase of the business.
		Invention of the Radio On December 11, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted Morse Code through radio waves 2,137 miles from England to Newfoundland.
In 1949, Castle-Pierce operated the first commercial two-color press in the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin.   Castle-Pierce entered the offset printing arena.	Invention of the Television Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian immigrant developed a devise that stored electric pulses exposed to light that could be transmitted. He called it the iconoscope/kinescope which is now known as the modern television.
	Invention of the Computer Vannevar Bush and a group of electrical engineers from MIT developed a device originally designed to solve differential equations. It weighed 100 tons and had wires reaching hundreds of miles.
Castle-Pierce leapt over the heads of regional competition with the addition in 1974 of a four-color press.
We celebrated our 110th anniversary with the completion of a $3.5 million expansion project. Included in the capital investments were two new presses - our 6-color Komori Lithrone 640, and Mark Andy 3200 Flexo Press, a new saddle-stitcher/folder, and 15,000 square foot Flexo Department add-on. The most impressive addition was the installation of a Computer-to-Plate operating environment. The Creo Trendsetter Platesetter harnesses a state of the art Digital Workflow that enables Castle-Pierce to meet all of the technology needs of our customers. We are poised to take advantage of all the internet and telecommunications based services.
Currently, the fourth generation of Castles manages the family-owned business. The workhorses now state-of-the-art Heidelberg and Komori offset presses and Mark Andy Narrow-web Flexographic presses, along with an impressive collection of computer-to-plate technology so vital in today's printing industry. Our extensive bindery enables us to provide saddle stitching, perfect binding, loop stitching, and a variety of folding, trimming and die-cutting services to fulfill your needs.