Commercial Printing Outlook : New Year, Similar Outlook

The National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) continues to base its industry analysis on the Blue Chip Economic Indicators consensus, which recently was calling for GDP to grow just 1.7 percent in 2011, after growing 3 percent last year, reports Andrew Paparozzi, chief economist and vice president of the East Rutherford, NJ-based association. “We expect industry sales to be essentially flat this year, somewhere between up 0.5 percent and down 0.5 percent.”