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A.B. Dick was a Chicago-based copy machine manufacturer, and an innovator in the quick printing mimeograph technology that was used by many shops until xerography became the standard. The company was founded in 1883 as a lumber supply company by Albert Blake Dick, but it soon diversified into office supply products.

The mimeograph machine had been one of Thomas Edison's very first inventions. Dick improved upon Edison's methods for creating stencils, and began designing flatbed duplicator machines. He introduced the Model 0 Flatbed Duplicator in 1887 and coined the term "mimeograph machine" to describe it.

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Mimeograph technology became extremely popular over the next 70 years or so, until it was replaced by dry photocopying techniques that used no liquid chemicals. A.B. Dick filed for bankruptcy in 2004. The majority of its assets were acquired by offset printing solutions provider Presstek.

In the mid-1970s when mimeography was still the technology of choice for reproductions and the company's annual sales approached $300 million, A.B. Dick employed a workforce of approximately 3,000 in the Chicago area. By the 1990s, the number of A.B. Dick employees had declined to 1,200. A few A.B. Dick employees were retained by Presstek when it acquired the company's assets, but most were forced to seek employment elsewhere.

What jobs pay the most at A.B. Dick?

Sales Manager is the highest paying job at A.B. Dick at $50,000 annually.