COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUTLOOK — PRINTING WORK TO RUN SHORT

Postal Concerns

Given an 8.4 percent increase in postage that doesn’t take effect until mid-year, the result should be a “push down” of around 1-1.5 percent in the portion of printing volume that ends up in the mail stream, Davis estimates. That translates into a negative 0.4-0.6 percent impact on total printing shipments for all of 2007.