Consolidation--The Ties That Bind?

"If you're a die-in-the-wool printer looking to expand into fulfillment, inventory management and database management, it's fairly intimidating and costly [to an independent]," Norton contends.

"The typical model of a printer is now changing to more of a company that handles the ultimate communications between a potential customer and a person who's making a pitch, as opposed to just doing one facet of it."