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Sears Catalogue Printer May Lay Off 660: The nation’s largest commercial printer said it will likely lay off 660 employees as a result of Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s decision to discontinue most of its catalogue operations. R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., which prints Sears catalogues, said it will close a 65-year-old plant on Chicago’s South Side and relocate production to other facilities. Sears’ decision earlier this week to shut down its “big book” catalogue means most of the more than 2,000 Sears catalogue stores--many of them owned by independent retailers--will also close, which prompted an early class-action lawsuit in Wayne County, Ill.--filed in September, 1992--seeking to force Sears to return store owners’ investments.