EDITOR'S notebook

A Changing Landscape

As our industry gears up for the annual GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO exhibition next month in the Windy City, it won't necessarily be business as usual. Printing companies across America—small shops all the way up to behemoths like Quebecor World—have been forced to lay off workers and close under-performing facilities. And, in response to many printers' hesitancies to invest in new equipment during these turbulent times, most industry suppliers have also downsized their manufacturing operations and their employee head counts. As painful as it might be, hard times, I guess, call for hard decisions.