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Printing Industry of Michigan Honors Ray Stoney Jr.

Receives Individual of the Year Award for more than 40 years of service to the graphic arts industry.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

In 1962, Ray Stoney Sr. moved to Detroit to work in sales for Braden Sutphin Ink, delivering ink out of his garage before opening Braden Sutphin’s first branch in 1972. Ray Stoney Jr. was quickly brought into the family business as soon as he could drive.             “When I got my driver’s license in 1969, I was handed a can of ink to deliver,” he recalled.             By 1973, Ray Jr. had joined Braden Sutphin on a full-time basis, and he has been a fixture in the Michigan graphic arts com...

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