Q3 Paper Outlook — Big Paper Cuts

In March, only 27.8 percent of those polled said that paper prices were rising, while 66.3 percent reported that prices were stable. It's quite a turnaround from March 2000, when 81.6 percent of printers were reporting that prices were rising. "Since last September, we've seen a huge majority of printers reporting that prices had stabilized, which is precisely the opposite of what we were seeing a year ago," Paparozzi says.