PI 400 - - Year in Review - A Year We'll All Remember

BY ERIK CAGLE

Without a doubt, 2001 was both a forgettable year and a year that won't soon be forgotten.

Printers spent most of the year lamenting a poor economy that seemed to be trying to outdo itself in finding new lows with each passing month. Their customers, print buyers, were feeling the pinch: ad pages and folios dwindled, print orders declined and traditional commercial work seemed to be taking a beating.