Print Industry Leader Calls for More Federal Government Work to Private Sector Printers
However, that number just a few years back was more than $500 million.
Last year, total GPO work to the private sector was $440 million. There has been roughly a 27% drop in GPO derived income by private sector printers over the past dozen years. Factor in inflation and the drop is even more dramatic. "The reason for the drop is not better management, more efficiency, or even less print. Au contraire, the reason for the drop is the uncontrolled growth of the in-house print plant operated by GPO, the granting of waivers by the government for the operating of thousands of other in-house print plants, and the active efforts by many government agencies to get around the rules," Gindlesperger explained. "This does not bode well for the print industry — especially now that the sky may be falling in for many printers."