COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUTLOOK — PRINTING WORK TO RUN SHORT

Arriving at outlook numbers for the commercial printing industry gets tricky, in part, because definitions of this segment can vary. Based on how it tracks the market, PERC is projecting the final figure for overall printing sales in 2006 to show an increase of 5.8-6.3 percent, totaling $87.6 billion to $88 billion, Vincenzino says. That’s up sharply from the increase of 2.1 percent in 2005. (These figures are for all industry services, not just printing, and the percentages are not adjusted for inflation.)