Internet Service Providers--Expanding Your Reach

It should be stressed that PrintBid does not consider itself an auction site. Instead it sees itself as a place for printers and buyers to connect with each other for the first time or manage existing relationships, notes Michalisko.

It's just this connection that Rick Stevens, owner of Stevens Printing in Portland, OR, has found extremely helpful. "The obvious benefit is the convenience of being able to sit down at your computer at any time and log on to see what kinds of jobs we want to bid on, Stevens says.