NAPL Printing Business Index Down in June

PARAMUS, NJ—7/25/2006—A prospective slowing in printing industry business activity is reflected in the June 2006 NAPL Printing Business Index (PBI), the trade association’s broadest measure of print activity, which fell to 52.8 in June from 55.6 in May and 59.9 in March, its lowest level in three years. (A PBI reading above 50.0 means more printers report activity is picking up than report activity is slowing down; a reading below 50.0 means the opposite.)