HOPKINS PRINTING -- Recipe for Success

Hopkins, now 60, once found himself in a mid-life crises at his job with Timken Roller Bearing in the early 1970s. He didn't buy a motorcycle and travel across the country; he kept his job, borrowed $2,000 from the bank and received a $1,000 gift from his mother. After watching a friend open a thriving, but small, print shop, Hopkins converted his garage and soon found himself moonlighting as a quick printer.