Women in Printing — It’s a Man’s World (Not!)

In 1982, when Eileen Rogers had her resumé printed (not copied), she walked into a small print shop in Scottsdale and essentially never left.

She took a job at the local Allegra Print & Imaging, which had just opened the year before, and began learning the operation inside-out.

“One day, the owner concocted a deal that offered me equity ownership and options to buy more, if I could grow sales and meet some other goals,” Rogers recalls. “Thirteen years later, I owned 100 percent of the company.”