Paper Outlook — Prices Are Going Soft

There shouldn't be any surprised looks on the faces of paper buyers. The market has been in a state of "status quo" for many months, according to Bruce Janis, president of MSPGA: Management Sciences for the Publishing and Graphic Arts.

"I foresee no great changes from where we've been the last four or five months, which is plenty of capacity and plenty of availability," Janis says. "During the first and second quarters [of 1998], I thought we were at the top of the business cycle; I believed conditions would be softer than they are now.