Ironside Press — Old-Fashioned Elbow Grease

Then, on December 14th, Ironside's production manager had a stroke, which came right on the heals of his pressman suffering a ruptured disc. The company went from a pressroom staff of three to one in 30 days. Forbes and the remaining employees had to quickly learn how to operate the entire shop.

In October 2007, Forbes made another aggressive investment. He purchased a fully automated, 20? Ryobi 520 GX sheetfed press and, for the very first time, Ironside had the ability to do high-volume, ultra-efficient, four-color printing. "Since then, we've successively quadrupled, if not quintupled, our profits every month."