Notes on building teams that last
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How a five-person workshop turns first-job hires into press operators in eighteen months
Barracas, Buenos Aires · Long interview
The studio opened in 2009 with one Heidelberg press. Today there are three, and the owners still sit in on every interview themselves. They explain why they stopped hiring experienced operators and started training teenagers from the neighborhood instead, and how that choice reshaped the first two years.
The piece follows one apprentice through her first solo run on a wedding invitation order, including the two mistakes that nearly ruined the batch. It also covers the training ladder, the informal mentoring structure, and the afternoon the team turned down a major outside job because it would have broken the training schedule.