Commercial Printing--Slowdown Slated for '99?

"However, due to the fact that most consumables prices have been stable or even declining, printers certainly couldn't have sustained the pressure on their prices that they've had to endure," he says.

Maurice Bushroe, vice president of sales and marketing at Cheverly, MD-based Peake Printers, saw customer understanding grow this year in terms of technology's effect on the print production process, particularly scheduling. As for 1999, he expects a sound performance from the Baltimore-Washington corridor, but the global economy is not as certain.