Following His Own Track

So he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. Within the first year, Johnson hired a press operator to run the Shinohara, bringing much of the short-run four-color process work back in-house. In 2004, he helped renovate and expand the copy center to 1,500 square feet and worked on a $1 million design and renovation project to transform a water pumping station into a 6,000-square-foot print shop. In the same year, Johnson started a bulk mail service for county departments.