GRAPH EXPO & CONVERTING EXPO 02 -- Large-format Opportuniti

The show takes place October 6-9 at McCormick Place South in Chicago. It's the foremost U.S. exhibition in 2002, with an expected attendance of more than 40,000 buyers and about 500 exhibitors slated to occupy nearly 365,000 net square feet of booth space.

Large-format ink-jet output systems will be a prominent part of the exhibits roster. These systems produce everything from one-off presentations to museum exhibition panels, creating a U.S. market that could be worth as much as $11.3 billion in the United States alone by 2005, according to a recent study by NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies.