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Ink Industry Mourns John Sergeant Jr.

Sergeant served as president of the CPIPC and received NAPIM’s Pioneer Award in 2019.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

John Herbert Sergeant Jr. of Romeoville, IL, longtime sales manager for Modern Printing Colors, passed away unexpectedly on March 28, 2025. He was 71. John was born June 6, 1953, in Joliet, IL. After graduating from Southern Illinois University, he was hired by Suresh Mahajan as plant manager for General Press Colors in the early 1980s. After leaving the industry briefly, he rejoined Mahajan after he started Modern Printing Colors, where John was sales manager. John was extremely active in...

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