1st Quarter Paper Outlook

"This comes on top of a roughly 10-percent increase over the last nine months," notes Bruce Janis, president of MSPGA: Management Science for the Publishing and Graphic Arts (www. mspga. com).

"We should see a January increase of another 6 percent on a typical 40 lb. number five sheet—so we're looking at a two-or-three-dollars per $/cwt. increase," he says.