Book Printing Outlook -- El-Hi, Hogwarts Shine

"That helps publishers manage inventories, reduce cost and obsolescence risks by using digital printing," Lane says. "That model has been well received and, basically, the pressline we have is sold out, so we're adding another."

According to Hawley, Walsworth Publishing will benefit from the overload of education work that some of its larger printing brethren will be unable to accommodate during 2006.