COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUTLOOK — PRINTING WORK TO RUN SHORT

The postage rate increase scheduled to go into effect around the middle of 2007 will impact the outlook for a significant segment of the industry, the economist adds.

“PIA/GATF estimates that about 45 percent of the dollar volume of printing ends up in the mail stream. In dollar terms, this amounts to around $70 billion in annual printing shipments,” he notes.