What is financial printing?
Traditionally, financial printing consisted of the production of the legal and financial reports all “public(1)” corporations and companies are required to (a) furnish to their current and prospective stockholders and (b) file with government agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Originally, that involved typesetting and printing, through use of hot lead, the tens or hundreds of pages each document contained. When a page changed, that would affect the entire layout of the document slowing down the process and requiring the financial printer to request significant amounts of lead time. Today, state-of-the-art computer systems have replaced hot metal type with the result that changes can be made instantly throughout complicated documents. The typesetting systems used by financial printers are extremely sophisticated computer programs with features that simplify the creation of complex financial tables often seen in Prospectuses, Annual Reports and regulatory fili
