Stanley J. Kukla Jr., Chicago and Midwest Printing Industry Icon and Patriarch, Remembered and Celebrated in his Passing
Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! Fondly known in Chicago printing circles as the “Polish Prints”, Stanley (Stan) J. Kukla Jr., passed away December 27, 2020, at 83. The native Chicagoan, along with his father, Stan Sr. and two brothers Fred, and Robert, founded Kukla Press, Inc. in 1964, a commercial web offset printing company in Schiller Park, IL, the success of which spanned decades. Kukla Press, distinguished for its role in the development of the ‘scratch and sniff’ printing, a popular process that brought sensory and tactile prope...