Illinois Printers — Competition’s Fierce

Andrea Plachy, Jet: Jet developed a well thought-out strategy to find markets that fit into its existing capabilities to increase sales and build our customer base.

Frank Hudetz, Solar Communications: What differentiates Solar in a very competitive environment is our focus on serving direct marketers with printing, packaging and mailing services using sheetfed offset, web offset and flexographic presses. Additionally, we recently invested more than $10 million to upgrade equipment and add new finishing capabilities that allow us to produce patented direct mail formats, which are personalized front and back.