Easing Into E-commerce

The ability to transmit messages, text, graphics and more instantaneously has also created new business operations—operations that can help businesses squeeze the potholes and speed bumps out of their crusty old 1995-style operations and boost themselves up to Internet speed.

The printing industry hasn't been left out of this explosion of Internet companies, or "dotcoms." There are at least 60 print-related Internet firms. Most of them didn't exist a year ago.