Commercial printing doesn't sound like a growth business, but in one sizable area it is ablaze with potential.
Mail-Well veered from envelopes, a sleepy business growing 2.5% a year, into the slightly less soporific commercial printing market, growing at 6%.
Although Heidelberg dominates the traditional offset commercial printing market, Xerox leads the fast-growing digital-production color segment with a market share of 55%.
Unlike the other two divisions, PrintXcel pushes its office forms and labels--as well as envelopes and commercial printing--through 20, 000 resellers that employ 100, 000 sales reps.
This company deals with commercial printing and as there is an increased need for efficiency in this space and demand for printing, McPherson expects InnerWorkings to do benefit.
So the question is more about can Kodak reinvent home printing like it did for democratizing photography, or is it to be left back in the dark room of B2B commercial printing?
Instead of painting their portraits by hand, he adapted a technique from commercial printing, in which a photographic image could be transferred to canvas by pushing paint through a mechanically-produced silkscreen template.
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After turning over five times in six years, the top job is now held by Gordon Griffiths , former head of commercial printing at Canadian giant Quebecor (nyse: IQW - news - people ).
Some of the funds expected to be raised in the shedding of the imaging businesses will be used to support Kodak's emergence from Chapter 11, in addition to the growth of its commercial printing, packaging and functional printing businesses, the company said.
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Mr. Perez decided to base the company's future on consumer and commercial inkjet printing.
It also plans to provide professional services to commercial and digital printing markets.
The reorganized Kodak will focus instead on commercial imaging and printing, where it believes it can once become profitable, according to its bankruptcy reorganization plan.
The reorganization plan, filed late Tuesday with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, has Kodak focusing instead on commercial imaging and printing.
The price compares favorably to commercial photo-printing services from companies like Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ), which cost around 29 cents per print, but they're not as cheap as Snapfish , which charges 19 cents including shipping, according to Merrill Lynch.
Kodak noted that in addition to the commercial, packaging and functional printing and enterprise services businesses, it also continues to own and operate the Consumer Inkjet, Entertainment Imaging, Commercial Film and Specialty Chemicals businesses, given the company's expertise, capabilities and strong customer relationships in these markets, as well as their combined cash-generating capability.
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It says it should be able to make money by supplying the electronics, chemicals, and printing surfaces used for commercial and graphics customers.
We coined a phrase, "The new business of printing, " which was the transformation of the commercial print or the offset world to the digital world.
They have financed this growth in their assets through increased liabilities such as commercial-bank reserves, swaps with central banks and other ways of printing money.
Though HP is a world leader in desktop color printing, it couldn't wait to adapt its technology to the commercial marketplace.
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