Ink Industry Hopeful, Despite Adversities

Higher product prices have helped soften the blow of ink makers' climbing expenditures, but because companies are trying to limit the financial burden they transfer to customers, price increases aren't enough to stop the bleeding.

"We implemented a minor increase in selling prices earlier this year, and are just now passing along another increase," said Ed Dedman, business development manager of Siegwerk Inks Packaging's Paper, Plastic & Label Business Unit. "Even with those increases, our margins have suffered."