Book Printing Outlook — Opportunities Abound

“The new (web press) equipment we’ve put in every one of our facilities is a hybrid-type solution—wide formats, more pages, quicker and, at same time, they have very efficient makeready capabilities,” Clarke says. “The middle ground of some of these markets has just disappeared. You’ve got big books where publishers need a million or two million of them. The good news: When Oprah talks about one on TV, you need an extra 400,000 of them. That equipment...some of our presses now are doing a million impressions a day, doubles the amount of pages. We’ve had presses, the same press, do more than 100 makereadies in a single day.”