TOPPAN PRINTING AMERICA -- Hitting with Power

Many recent investments had been gauged toward prepress updates and enhancements, but future outlays will include the 12-color Speedmaster and upgraded bindery equipment. Web presses could loom in the future, but Ohkado is wary of getting his capabilities ducks in a row.

"One mistake we made in 1992, when we got into sheetfed printing, was that we really didn't have a sales force to sell printing," Ohkado recalls. "We want to make our sheetfed business very efficient and give it a solid foundation. In the future, we will not only expand to web printing, which our home office is doing, but we would also like to diversify into electronic communications and e-commerce."