Envelope Mart USA/H.O.T Printing: The Ultimate Family Affair

Turn back the clock to 1978. A young Greg Shapiro and his wife decide to take a weekend trip from their suburban Detroit home to Toledo, OH, and visit Shapiro's mother, Inez. What he found upon arriving at mom's house was a little bit jarring. It seems Inez Shapiro had brought home her work.

More specifically, the work had consumed her home. Inez literally had jobs sitting all over the place, and it was clear that she needed some assistance. As the Shapiros trekked back up I-75 at the end of the visit, it occurred to Greg that mom's House of Type typesetting business—at this point an apt name, considering the state of Inez's home—was in need of a lifeline.