WEB OFFSET REPORT -- Looking to Offset Losses

Students will enter the work force ready to be immediate, constructive contributors to the printing industry. This type of effort is an example of how our industry can work together to create a skilled work force.

Postal Service Move Will Spare Print Sales

Web offset printers stand to be among the big beneficiaries of legislation designed to correct overpayments to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). There's an important caveat, however. Its effect would be to give the USPS retirement fund payment credits that should push back the need for any postage rate increases until at least 2006. Unfortunately, projections of a multi-billion-dollar impact on industry sales represents business that otherwise would have been lost, and not new printing sales.