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For many printers, the run-up to the end of a year is busy, but as the new year starts, there is a thirst for more efficiency and profitability. For 2024, with drupa coming in May on top of the regular schedule of shows large and mid-size, spend some time examining your current state. Here are three projects that can pay off in increased efficiency, higher profits, and happier staff!

As you ended 2023, there were jobs in progress, orders on the books, and a heap of accounting information in your business systems. The gold nuggets in the data show what products sell at the appropriate profit margin, which are selling at extraordinary margins and those at a lower margin, at cost, or at a loss. If you still need to do the exercise to review your products, their actual costs to produce, and your pricing algorithms, this is the time to do it.