Ink Matters

With help from industry ink suppliers, packagePRINTING set out to give some perspective on this year's ink usage survey results.

One's enough

Good ink supply management is a matter of finding which ink company's products work best and who is willing to bargain, according to this year's survey, where more than 60 percent of respondents reported working with one supplier in 2003. That's compared to 2002, when an overwhelming 84 percent of surveyed printers said they used multiple ink vendors.