Book Printing Outlook: Trade, Higher Ed Better

A range of one- and four-color digital solutions buoyed the printer's conventional offerings and allowed it to offer customers the ability to produce quantities from one to a million units as publishers sought to improve their turnaround times and reduce inventories. Included in these initiatives was the exclusive agreement with Muller Martini to create the first high-speed, in-line ink-jet printing and book binding system. RR Donnelley will take delivery of the first six integrated systems in the United States in 2010 and 2011, according to Lane.