Copied from Reuters and AP

This is only a blog so it is ok once in a while to just link to reliable sources.

"Printing press makers gather amid growing gloom" is the headline from Reuters, based on the financial results for Heidelberg and manroland.

Ben Dobbin for the Associated Press reports from Rochester in New York State, as good a base as any for relating to drupa online.

With profits from offset lithography printing stagnant — and more than 3 percent of the nation's more than 30,000 commercial printers folding each year — a radical shift to digital now looks imminent, said Steve Nigro, general manager of HP's graphics and imaging business.