Pennsylvania Printers -- There's Plenty to Love in PA

“For us, finding that edge is trying to be as efficient as we can. If you can’t increase the price on your product, you have to be more efficient in producing that product.”

The P.A. Hutchison Co., in Jermyn, began life as a commercial printing firm in 1911, the year before the Titanic sank in the Atlantic. According to President Chris Hutchison, the company began to gravitate toward book manufacturing in the 1980s. The printer has prospered thanks, in part, to a strong interstate highway system and a historically strong workforce.