Mood at Graph Expo Reflects Uncertainty --Michelson

Even the various press conferences this year seemed to take on a different tone, as several suppliers spent almost as much time discussing their financial stability and strong cash positions as they did talking up their latest offerings, many of which debuted at Drupa in Germany just months before. There was less big iron filling the show floor than one would have found even a couple of years ago. The expense for offset press manufacturers to ship, assemble and run large presses is formidable. Also a sign of the times, several of the bigger booths clustered around the largest exhibitor, Heidelberg, consisted of suppliers with digital printing pedigrees.