Article: Printing pressed: cost-conscious firms cut back annual reports.(Up Front)(Lithographix Inc.)

It's annual report season and that means the massive presses at Lithographix Inc. in Hawthorne are humming 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Even at 3 a.m., corporate types are lined up, waiting frantically to approve pages as they are pulled off the presses. But this year, the season, which stretches from mid-February through April, seems slightly less hectic.

That's because many companies are skipping the bells and whistles of the annual report. Rather than spend a few hundred thousand dollars creating a glossy corporate advertisement for shareholders and clients, some public companies prefer to just post their financial results on the Internet.

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