Q3 Paper Outlook — Big Paper Cuts

Landing Wasn't So Soft
The dramatic changes that the economy has undergone in the last year continues to amaze Paparozzi. "We've seen such a slowdown in the economy in the past year. This was not the soft landing for which the Federal Reserve was hoping."

However, there has been one bright spot for printers. "A year ago printers were really wrestling with sharply higher paper prices. They were able to pass some of it along, but some of it affected the bottom line. One of the positives of this significant slowdown is that a printer's most critical raw material has stabilized," Paparozzi claims.