Ingrid Hope – Owner/ President
Since taking over the helm in January 2005, she is assuming the role of general manager, inside and outside sales, financial management and Hall Printing supporter and promoter. She is slowly letting go of her former accounting responsibilities to concentrate her energies on forward thinking to lead the company and staff.

Ingrid’s husband and co-owner, Ron have a family with three grown children and two fat cats. Both have lots of family locally and love living, playing, and working in the beautiful West Kootenay.

Paul Bowles – Pressman
Paul, the pressman is also the calligrapher and house poet. He has been with Hall Printing for an eternity. This working, printing, composing, writing relationship eventually produced the Hall Printing History Book. Requested by the manager, written and printed by Paul in the 90’s, the book offers a scan of life over a few generations of people at the print shop. Paul prints his own calligraphic pieces such as cards or posters and a book of poems which are offered for sale at the shop or the ‘Virtual Mall.ca’

Paul is married, has four children and lives in Fruitvale – village of the giant bulrushes and tracks through the Beaver Valley, the path across it, the creek running by it and the trees upon its banks.

Les Otterbein – Pressman
Leslie Otterbein has more than 20 years of press experience under his belt. He's been around here since 1990 when he moved out from Alberta. He's never regretted the move, and considers himself just as much a native as all the other people who moved here too. When not getting inky fingers, his talents extend to digital photography, design, and restoration work, and on the home front he's a DIYer too. When not burning the candle on both ends, he likes to fall asleep in the bathtub with his current novel.

Tracy Bayley – Sales and Customer Service Manager/ PC Desktop Technician
Tracy started working for Hall Printing in 1991. Over the years, she has developed a passion for the print industry and is a great source of information for our customers. She has taken on the role of “PC Expert” helping us service the exploding market of files produced at home and in office, yet need professional output. Tracy is married to Pete and has two children. Having moved here from Edmonton, they have found Trail to be “the place to live and raise children” with lakes, golfing and skiing right at the doorstep.

Peter Harvey – Production Manager/ Desktop Technician
Peter has worked in the printing industry for 30 years with a wide variety of experiences including pressman, compositor and darkroom technician. He is currently the prepress technician and production superintendent at Hall Printing. Peter is happily married to Donna and they have five children and a huge fat dog called Bubba. Living in the West Kootenay and working at Hall Printing, life couldn’t be any better.

Mackenzie Hope - Customer Service Representative, Nelson
Mackenzie has been working at Hall Printing off and on since the age of 16. After completing the BCIT Marketing and Communications Program, he is now permanently back in the Kootenays. His current role is managing the new Nelson office.

Barb Pyett – Accounting/ Customer Service Representative
Barb joined our team in December to assume the accounting position vacated by Ingrid. She brought with her several years of experience in accounting/banking and customer service. With her husband Ron, they gave up the corporate city life in 1991, moved to the West Kootenay and were self-employed retailers until October 2004. “We both love this area with its great weather, beautiful scenery and some of the best golf courses around.”

Marja Taussi - Customer Service Representative
A seasoned veteran in graphic design and print production, she is learning the ropes of front line customer service. Her hobbies include photography, gardening, learning apprentice carpentry skills while helping with the construction of a new home and training her cat to stay on the property.

Rolf Wieping – Desktop, Pre-press Technician
Rolf has worked in the printing industry for 35 years with a wide variety of experiences including scanning, design-compositions and prepress technician. He is currently the prepress technician at Hall Printing in Nelson. Rolf is happily married to Edeltraud and they have two children, two german shepherd dogs and a cat. Rolf enjoys fly-fishing, dog training and gardening.

Melissa Hofmann - Customer Service Representative
Melissa joined Hall Printing two years ago. She received a photography diploma from Fanshawe College in London Ontario. Melissa worked for photography studios in the Barrie area, as well as head photographer for Vortex music magazine. She then started to work in the newspaper business, as a photographer/writer for a Barrie newspaper. The newspaper company offered her a position as manager/editor for a newspaper start up in Calgary. From Calgary she decided to move to Nelson.

Janice Underwood - Customer Service Representative
Since arriving at Hall Printing in September 2008, Janice has utilized her financial background in our Customer Service Department. Happy to provide copy services to our customers, Janice is learning the ropes of the print industry on the front line. While at home with her daughter, she enjoys working with her hands doing cross-stitch; knitting and crochet as well as sewing and woodwork.

Justin Turner - Bindery Technician
Justin is the bindery sector guru. He is hard working perfectionist and likes to learn new things. Justin formerly worked a production line at "The Right Stuff". Outside of work Justin likes to spend time with friends and family.

Sarah Fulcher – Customer Service Representative
Sarah began working part-time for Hall Printing in September of 2009 and full-time since January of 2010. She is a recent graduate of a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in New Media (design, web design, video, audio and animation) at the University of Lethbridge. Sarah is happy to be back in the Kootenays after spending the last 8 years in Southern Alberta working for a major newspaper and several print shops while finishing her degree.  As a certified dog trainer, Sarah spends three nights a week helping others in the area train their dogs and when not working she loves to spend time with her husband and their two dogs and two cats.