Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Believe it or not there are still print executives who think business is slow because the economy is slow. They ask "when will the economy get better so things can get back to normal?" Normal? Lately, "normal" has been pretty bad. I'd like to go back to the printing industry ...Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monday's financial markets perpetuate uncertainty in the markets when there should be none. This is what we know for certain: banks get into trouble when they loan money to people who can't pay it back; the U.S. Federal Reserve likes throwing gas on fires. This is quite different than some of ...Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Everyone thinks that the Internet has been the cause of a decline in print; the real cause has been the lasting legacy of desktop publishing in the grander computer revolution. Last month, U.S. commercial printing employment was below 600,000, which caught my attention. I went straight to my library of industry ...Monday, December 3rd, 2007
This is a response to a letter written earlier this year to Plant Engineering magazine regarding the loss of manufacturing jobs and plants. The author of the letter to comments on the decline of press manufacturing in the U.S., especially at Goss. Blaming this on offshore competition is rather strange. Since ...Monday, September 24th, 2007
Be sure to sign up for Wednesday's webinar, where we'll be sorting through the the latest news and trends with our outlook for 2008, and sometimes beyond. This time of year is usually the end of business planning cycles for companies that operate under a calendar fiscal year, and the ...Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Ok, when I saw the intro page for their April Fools joke, about "Gmail Paper," I thought it might make some sense because I actually remember when you could send a letter through AOL that they would print and mail for you. AOL discontinued that sometime around 1997 or so, ...Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
January 2007 was a good month for commercial printing shipments, up $343 million on a current dollar basis compared to January 2006. December shipments were revised up by yet another $12 million. This represents nine consecutive months of positive comparisons to the prior year. Current dollar shipments were up +4.9%. On ...
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