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Article: Brighter days ahead for print: mid-year economic scrutiny suggests that the printing market will strengthen through 2005.
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- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Printing activity continues to expand, but so far more slowly than the rest of the economy.
The Printing Business Index compiled by the National Association for Printing Leadership's has been at the mid-50s level since last fall, indicating rising sales and strengthening pricing. However, this market improvement has only tentatively appeared in the hard-data shipments measure from the Census Bureau and the production estimate by the Federal Reserve Board.
Printing shipments, measured in dollars, have been essentially flat since last fall, while printing production volume increased about 0.5% in the winter quarter. With print production up and dollar sales unchanged, ...
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