Q4 Paper Outlook — Caution in a Moderate Market

Barbara Dohman, vice president of production at Colortone, a midsized commercial printer servicing the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas, agrees that maintaining a conservative inventory is smart business.

"More recently, quantities of paper have been at our beck and call," she explains.

"With projected rates of increased production through 1998 to be 2 percent for coateds and uncoateds (according to most paper predictors), I feel comfortable that, at least for the foreseeable future, I will not lack paper on which to print for the price I want to pay.