A Bullish Bowne

Strictly ink-on-paper has given way to information management and distribution; while the message remains the same, the delivery has evolved somewhat.

"Our core competency at Bowne is the ability to acquire or create a customer's data, then make that data into a communication," he adds. "In the past, our customers had always asked us to print documents and physically file financial documents with the SEC. Today, they're asking us to disseminate those documents that we helped create via BowneLink to our plants around the world; convert and file the documents in EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval system) II format to the SEC; and convert them to html or PDFs that are placed on a customer's Website—sometimes before we print the job.