BILL ESLER is Editor in Chief of Graphic Arts Monthly, the leading magazine for the graphic arts and allied industries, published by Reed Business Information. He is responsible for overall editorial planning and content of each issue, as well as for companion on-line publications e-GAM and graphicartsmonthly.com. Prior to that, he was editor and publisher of Graphic Communications World newsletter, and before that spent six years working on specialized print industry publications for Reed.
Before coming to Reed, he operated Quoin Communications, publishing Print Business Register, Copy Magazine, and Printing News Midwest. He was also editorial director at Innes Publishing. He began his print industry journalism career as features editor at American Printer.
Bill has been in the graphic arts field for more than 30 years in various editorial and print industry production positions. He began his career at Monarch Matrix in Chicago’s Printer’s Row, pulling repro proofs from letterpress plates for conversion to offset negatives, and operating the cutter. He was also assistant typographer at Spiegel Catalog, production manager at Professional Press, and national newspaper ad production coordinator at Ace Hardware Corp.
A graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, IL, he received print industry technical training at Triton College, near Chicago. He has contributed to three Techno Economic Forecasts for the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and has presented at numerous industry meetings in the U.S. and China.
Bill is on the board of the Technical Assn. of the Graphic Arts (TAGA) and of the Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation.
