2006 PRINTING INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME — SUCCESS, THE HARD WAY

Hopkins quickly developed a reputation in his community, but customers started asking him to perform jobs that he didn’t have the equipment for, so he either farmed out the work or went the multiple-pass route. When he acquired a Heidelberg GTO sheetfed press, the company made its foray into short-run, four-color printing at a time when there weren’t a lot of printers cranking out short-run, four-color jobs.