Peter S. Redding

There appears to be no shortage of cash when it comes time to pay the printing industry's top executives. This, Printing Impressions' 11th annual executive compensation report, highlights the industry's top money earners at publicly held printing companies. W. Ed Tyler, president and CEO of Moore Corp., appears at the top of this year's ranking with total compensation of $2,360,362. He replaces 1999's top-paid executive, Shorewood Packaging's Marc Shore, who does not appear this year following a merger with International Paper. For those executives appearing on the 2000 ranking, the previous year's salary and the percentage of change in compensation from this year to

CORNING, IA—Dayton, OH-based Standard Register (SR), looking to reduce manufacturing costs, says it will close its forms printing plant here. The company also announced the phasing out of its Dayton-based production of certain forms-handling equipment products. Additionally, SR will consolidate field sales and support management, which officials say will result in improved operating efficiencies, and position the organization to capture market growth opportunities. The company will also offer an enhanced early retirement option to a number of its Dayton-based corporate headquarters employees. Officials say these actions are expected to result in a first quarter 2000 restructuring charge in the range of $15 million to