Commercial Printing Outlook — Tepid Vote of Confidence

NAPL’s surveys have been consistently finding upward of 60 to 65 percent of its printer panel reporting sales growth. Only around 30 percent of those same printers, though, reported corresponding increases in profitability, and the percentage has been slipping. Rising costs—for employee benefits and consumables—are to blame, since printers are having trouble passing the increases on to customers, Paparozzi explains.