How the Bigger Get Better

Part one of a two-part series exploring how some of the largest prepress companies achieve major-league technology initiatives.

by Terri McConnell, Prepress Editor

Here we are again. At the point in the grand American economic cycle where it seems that big companies just keep getting bigger, while small companies battle for survival among the giants. As consumers languishing on the other end of perpetual hold, we might wonder just what's so great about the race towards consolidation. Frustrated with the complicated, sometimes dehumanizing experience of doing business with a corporate Goliath, it's easy to believe that mega-companies are endless, faceless entities where nothing ever changes except a few letters in front of the Inc.