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                                                                   Exhibit 10.29



                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                             REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE
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$____________
                                                                Atlanta, Georgia
                                                                   June 21, 2001

          For value received, CADMUS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, a Virginia
corporation (the "Borrower"), promises to pay to the order of (the "Bank"), for
the account of its Lending Office, the principal sum of ________________
______________________________ and No/100 Dollars ($____________), or such
lesser amount as shall equal the unpaid principal amount of each Revolving
Credit Loan made by the Bank to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement
referred to below, on the dates and in the amounts provided in the Credit
Agreement.  The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount
of this Note on the dates and at the rate or rates provided for in the Credit
Agreement.  Interest on any overdue principal of and, to the extent permitted by
law, overdue interest on the principal amount hereof shall bear interest at the
Default Rate, as provided for in the Credit Agreement. All such payments of
principal and interest shall be made in lawful money of the United States in
Federal or other immediately available funds at the office of Wachovia Bank,
N.A., 191 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia  30303, or such other address
as may be specified from time to time pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

          All Revolving Credit Loans made by the Bank, the respective maturities
thereof, the interest rates from time to time applicable thereto and all
repayments of the principal thereof shall be recorded by the Bank and, prior to
any transfer hereof, endorsed by the Bank on the schedule attached hereto, or on
a continuation of such schedule attached to and made a part hereof; provided
that the failure of the Bank to make, or any error of the Bank in making, any
such recordation or endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower
hereunder or under the Credit Agreement.

          This Note is one of the Revolving Credit Notes referred to in the
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 21, 2001 among the
Borrower, the banks listed on the signature pages thereof and their successors
and assigns, Wachovia Bank, N.A., as Agent, Bank of America, N.A., as
Documentation Agent, and First Union National Bank, as Syndication Agent (as the
same may be amended or modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement").
Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings.
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for provisions for the prepayment and
the repayment hereof and the acceleration of the maturity hereof.

          The Borrower hereby waives presentment, demand, protest, notice of
demand, protest and nonpayment and any other notice required by law relative
hereto, except to the extent as otherwise may be expressly provided for in the
Credit Agreement.
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          The Borrower agrees, in the event that this Note or any portion hereof
is collected by law or through an attorney at law, to pay all reasonable costs
of collection, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has caused this Note to be duly
executed under seal, by its duly authorized officer as of the day and year first
above written.

                         CADMUS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

                         By: ___________________________________________  (SEAL)
                             David E. Bosher, Senior Vice President and CFO





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                         Revolving Credit Note (cont'd)
                REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
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/1/  i.e., a Base Rate, or Euro-Dollar Loan.



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