Crowds Return to Graph Expo

Numerous in-plants were spotted walking the aisles of Graph Expo. Dozens of them packed a conference room for a lunchtime session on Tuesday, to hear vendors and fellow in-plant managers talk about how to incorporate integrated marketing into their operations.

With the big offset vendors like Heidelberg and Komori taking a break from the show this year, offset presses were hard to find. (This editor counted only three companies with presses: Presstek, Baum (with its small BaumPrint 18) and—tucked away in a back corner—a company called Gronhi Graphics International, showing the Chinese-built GH524 four-color press.