Deborah Snider

eLynxx Solutions, Chambersburg, Pa., is pleased to include Johns Hopkins University among the clients using its flagship eLynxx software. eLynxx is cloud software that is built for print buyers to streamline and simplify the specification, sourcing and management of custom printed communications...

For printers ranking in the Top 50 GPO Print Suppliers report for federal fiscal year 2012, success came in the form of winning a combined total of 62 percent of the approximately $300 million worth of printing the GPO sourced from the private sector between October 2011 and September 2012.

No work versus reduced pricing to get work. That conundrum faces printers as no brighter days appear to be on the horizon for the economy, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Using tools designed for a specific job can make the difference between the job being completed successfully or not. That is certainly true with household projects. For starters, it helps to know where to find your tools, have them in one place and organized. When you need that Phillips-head screwdriver, you want to be able to put your hands on it and not waste time looking for it. Construction professionals depend on tools designed for specific jobs, and they keep them organized so they are easily accessible because time is money to them.

Too often printers think they have to be capable of producing multi-million dollar jobs in order to compete for the approximately $400 million in work that the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) awards annually to private sector printers. That is a myth, according to Deborah Snider, senior vice president of e-LYNXX Corporation.

Periodically, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) updates its regulations and manuals.