Web Offset--Efficiency Is Inevitable

Labor shortages, advancing technology and customer demands are issues driving web printers toward streamlined operations.

BY ALLISON ECKEL

"I.N.S. is Looking the Other Way as Illegal Immigrants Fill Jobs: Enforcement Changes in Face of Labor Shortage." This headline sang out from the front page of an early March edition of The New York Times. The article reports that the current pool of labor in this country is so small that the Immigration and Naturalization Service is turning its back on any illegal immigrants who are contributing to the U.S. workforce.