Fast-Track Firms : Success Amid the Mess

Give the editors at Printing Impressions a little bit of credit. It takes a lot of chutzpah to go door-to-door (so to speak) in the printing industry, asking America's leading printers to provide their sales figures for the latest fiscal year completed in order to compile the annual PI 400.

Sure, a few doors were slammed in our faces. And some irate executives pointed us toward a warmer climate. But, in the end, we were able to get our 400 companies. Enjoy the tipped-in insert, but don't linger over the percentage sales changes from year to year, as it is a bit depressing.