STATE OF THE INDUSTRY - Far from Dead

The commercial printing segment is one of 17 printing segments defined by the U. S. Department of Commerce. The chart on this page lists the segments, together with our view of the largest competitors in the consolidated segments.

Leader of the Pack
Commercial printing is by far the largest of all printing segments with 1999 shipments of $102.7 billion, 786,224 employees and more than 38,000 firms. Commercial printing is the most fragmented of all the printing segments and, consequently, its demographics, performance and future are the most misunderstood.