Top 30 Book Manufacturers
Peter Tobin: The biggest change has been that there has not been enough four-color capacity in the book manufacturing market. Last year was a really challenging year, because it was such a big growth year in education publishing, both el-high and higher-ed, which is largely a four-color game.
The next three years project to be the same growth scenario in the market. So for Courier, we added another high-output, four-color Man Roland Lithoman press in December 2005, that came online just five months ago. That is a match to one we brought online in April 2004, so that is a lot of four-color capacity that we have added in the last couple years. Because of continuing demand, we ordered a third, identical Man Roland Lithoman, which will be online this December. So the big demand is for four-color capacity, and we’re ready ….
Matt Steinmetz is the publisher and brand director of Publishing Executive.