Lexington, Ky.

Elise Hacking Carr is senior production editor for Print & Promo Marketing magazine, and managing editor for PRINTING United Journal.

The fun doesn't stop at 50. Additional suppliers responded to this year's Top Suppliers survey, but just missed this year's list. Here are some of them:

WhatTheyThink, Lexington, Ky., an online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry, announced the availability of its most recent economic report “Printing Shipments and Profits,” authored by Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink’s Economics and Research Center. “Printing profits for the last four quarters, Q4-2006 to Q3-2007, were $4.06 billion on an inflation-adjusted basis,” said Webb. “This was a disappointing performance, and includes the effects of a significant downward revision of previously profits data by the U.S. Department of Commerce.” Webb also stated that “our exclusive forecasting models now indicate profit levels will remain under serious pressure because of lackluster sales levels, higher

Headquartered in Lexington, Ky., WhatTheyThink—an online media organization serving the printing and publishing industry—announced the availability of its most recent economic report, “Printing Shipments and Profits.” The report is authored by Dr. Joe Webb, director of WhatTheyThink’s Economics and Research Center. “Printing profits for the last four quarters, Q3-2006 to Q2-2007, were $5.15 billion dollars on an inflation-adjusted basis,” said Webb. “This is excellent news compared to the same period a year ago, when profits were only $3.86 billion, a 23.4 percent increase.” Built on data from WhatTheyThink’s Economics and Research Center, the U.S. Commerce Department and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

WhatTheyThink.com, Lexington, Ky.—a news and analysis site for the printing and publishing industry—announced that Frank Romano, professor emeritus, School of Print Media, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), will conduct a free educational webinar entitled “Selling and Marketing Digital Printing to Ad Agencies.” Scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 27, from 2:00 to 3:00 EST, the session will help print service providers with digital color printing capabilities target ad agencies with business-to-business clients. Registration for this no-charge webinar is available at Web page http://members.whattheythink.com/home/webinarregistrationform.cfm. “Ad agencies influence over $102 billion in print buying in the United States,” said Romano. “Eighty percent of creative agencies are involved in

Taken as a technology, not a business sector, e-commerce is an unmitigated success. As Industry analyst Eliot Harper tells it, the birth of e-commerce can be traced to 1986 and Henry Freedman's "829" patent—a pioneering invention allowing for the interconnection of printing requesters to printing facilities on telecommunications networks (visit www.henryfreedman.com). "However, we started to witness the real introduction of print dot-com providers in 1999 at Seybold in Boston, when we saw Collabria, Impresse and others springing up," said Harper, on staff with WhatTheyThink, Lexington, Ky. "There were a total of nine new dot-com companies at this show. Today, there are more than

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