These 20-Under-40 Up-and-Coming Printing Industry Executives Share Their Success Stories

"After the injury, I decided I was done with school and ready to enter the workforce," Blackburn notes. "So I started my new education as an employee at Foster Printing."

He has worked in every department of the company, starting in shipping and ultimately making his way to the president's chair. The company had been a part of his life since age 12, when father Dennis first hung his shingle to do business. It became ingrained in his life experiences; he learned to drive a car by practicing on Foster Printing forklift trucks when his dad needed to come into the plant on weekends to finish up work.