Commercial Printing Outlook : Healing Light Cast on 2011

Expectations for economic growth were modest at best heading into 2010, and that's what the year has delivered. The only good news, really, has seemed to be that the worst hasn't happened. No double-dip recession. No collapse of the banking system.

With the dawning of 2011 on the horizon, the outlook had already turned brighter, even before the outcome of the November elections buoyed the spirits of the business community. "The bias of the U.S. economy is that it wants to grow," observes Ron Davis, Ph.D., and Printing Industries of America's (PIA) chief economist and vice president.