Year for Broken Records

For Dayton, OH-based Standard Register, it was a year when the company's sales would top $1 billion, but also a year when it made plans to close a number of printing centers and plants, including several former UARCO sites, which Standard Register acquired in 1997.

One other merger that was of interest to the industry: The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation and the Printing Industries of America approved a planned consolidation for the two trade associations, which will lead to the creation of Print and Graphics Associations International, the new umbrella organization.