The Best Places in the United States for Printing Companies to be Located Are...

Oppositely, in the Overserved League, some 8,282 printing plants, or 27 percent, are located in the declining “rust-belt” metropolitan standard areas where few, if any, will ever make money again. The LVP “least valuable player” is Chicago, where there’s more printing capacity than in Germany. At 2.6 percent of gross metropolitan product (GMP), more than one-third is excess capacity and in a place where the demand base is shrinking by over 2 percent per year! Some companies have been or are moving away, but preposterously to other wrong places, like Wisconsin, where printing is 1.5 percent of the economy and triple what is demanded!