COMMERCIAL PRINTING -- Running Lean and Mean

NAPL's survey also asks printers if business generally is picking up, slowing down or basically steady. October 2003 marked the fourth consecutive month in which significantly more printers reported overall activity was picking up compared to the number who said activity was declining. It also was the third straight month in which more survey respondents reported work on hand (corrected for seasonal variation) was rising than said it was declining, he adds.