Rick Roth has worked in many fields and founded several successful businesses related to printing and media. He graduated from Colgate University and Harvard Divinity School and has been active in human rights causes for 35 years. Roth began experimenting with printing techniques in his basement in the 1970s and went on to build a successful commercial printing business that employed over 60 people at its peak. He later co-founded Ink Kitchen, a media company focused on sharing information about printing techniques.

1. You Get to Learn from MY
Mitsakes
Rick Roth Owner of Mirror Image, Founder of The Ink Kitchen

2. •”Show me somebody that don’t make no
mistakes, and I’ll show you somebody that
ain’t doin’ nothin’”- Bonnie Tillman (former CEO of
MHM USA)

3. Rick Roth
• Worked as farmer, carpenter, steelworker, dishwasher, mental health aide,
gardener, semi-pro basketball player, furniture factory worker, drug
counselor, and youth worker
• Graduated Colgate University Honors in Philosophy and Religion
• Graduate School at Harvard Divinity School
• Raised 11 kids
• Published the Haiku Year with Michael Stipe, Grant Lee Phillips, etc.
• Founded and Produce the Pawtucket Film Festival (20th anniversary)
• 35 year human rights activist volunteer with Amnesty International
• Longest serving board member Students for a Free Tibet
• Two music radio shows on WMBR in Cambridge, MA
• Played baseball (not softball) til age 64, batted .690 at age 58

4. Printing since 1971
Printed for money since 1983
Printed for five years without even using a press, just a screen and by eye
on many thousands of Hanes undershirts
Built an ”automatic press” in 1987
Started Mirror image in 1989
At the peak doing over $5M and employed 60 people
Nearly went bankrupt got down to 2 employees, 2 interns and me unpaid
and $250K in debt
Formed a consortium of print shops in 2009 to print across the country
(and world) with same basic techniques and equipment.
Back to high revenue, 18 employees and partner company with 30
employees
Started Ink Kitchen a media company for sharing accurate decoration
information in 2009, relaunched with Tom Davenport and Pam Ikegami in
2014

6. Starting in My Basement (Not a Mistake)

7. Water-based ink drying on a clothesline in my basement.

16. plural noun: academics
a teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education.

23. HISCOX.COM
$ Checks and Balances
$ Bookkeeper and Accountant Separate
$ Bank Statements Opened by You
$ Count on Systems Protecting You, Not Trusting People
$ Don’t think you are immune, crooks think of cheating you 24/7
and you only think about it once in awhile.
$ Press Charges
$ Get Over Your Shame

42. rick@inkkitchen.com