Paper Forecast — Calm Seas Ahead

Even so, there are some printers who disagree with Paparozzi's claim that prices are beginning to stabilize.

Mark Noe, of Broadview, IL-based Lehigh Cadillac Direct, has not seen any stabilization in prices. "The current pricing is somewhat unstable, except for groundwood coated." He also notes that uncoated freesheet is losing some of the year's previous increases. And in the past six months, transactional prices have increased about 5 percent on coated grades.