COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUTLOOK -- Ambiguity is Certain

"Ambiguous" is a very good adjective to capsulize the outlook for the economy in general and the commercial printing sector in particular. There already were scant few certainties in the printing business before the recent economic, and geopolitical, shocks—9/11, the war on terrorism, confronting Iraq, corporate accounting scandals and even continued fallout from the dotcom boom/bust.