Printing Is All In The Family

"I told them if they could work with me, I could save their jobs," she says.

Babin admits she knew little about printing at the time.

"I could run a copier. That's about it," she says. "I knew I had to depend on them to turn the shop around."

Back In The Black

The staff worked overtime without pay and set out to find more customers. In only nine months, the in-plant was $90,000 in the black. Today, it maintains an operating budget of nearly $6 million and still turns a profit.