Hurricane Sandy Exacts Toll on Printers As Well

"We arranged for hotel rooms for employees and we ran this 24/7 business as best as we could," Roberts said. "We produce publications throughout the East Coast and it was our customers that really had the bigger challenge, and hardest hit was the New Jersey coastline.

"Many of our coastal pubs had flooded production facilities. On this side of print manufacturing, we measure the deadlines in hours, not days. Every minute of press time was even more critical, because of many large publications juggling their schedule through a genuine crisis. We had a challenging week, but I will say that our preparedness was a comfort to our customers and to ourselves."