Savvy Buyers Being Let Go —Dana

(It's curious. For the past 18 months, buyers have been worried about which printers will "remain standing," and which will be casualties of the recession and changing trends. Now, though, the shoe's on the other foot.)

When a print buyer loses her job, she often takes with her a set of specialized skills that no one else on staff has. Print buyers work alone much of the time, dealing with a manufacturing process that no one else in the firm understands. Presumably, some printing still needs to be done, and well-developed processes and procedures may be abandoned—simply because no one other than the print buyer had ever dealt with printers.