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Article: Looking for High-Volume Print Runs? Look to the GPO.
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- Printing News
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- May 24, 1999
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The Government Printing Office (GPO) offers a huge amount of work for all types of printers. This includes businesses whose forte is long-run books, tabloids, cut sheets, and forms. The jobs can range from printing in black ink to multicolor and four-color process work.
It is important to make this point because the GPO has long been branded as a market that caters to small, quick turnaround printers, and not to high-volume printing.
Numbers don't lie, however, and the dollars spent by federal agencies through GPO for longer-run jobs is significant. In a one-year period ending March 31, private sector printers obtained $144,852,232 in long-run book and ...