COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUTLOOK — PRINTING WORK TO RUN SHORT

While it continues to use the Blue Chip Economic Indicator Consensus in its forecasting, NAPL’s Printing Economic Research Center (PERC) is now making that number the upper bound of its economic outlook range, reports Joseph Vincenzino, senior economist. PERC’s analysis had begun pointing to a coming slowdown in the economy starting in late 2005, but the Blue Chip Consensus remained much higher, the economist notes. “It has now moved closer to our view of the economy.”