Ronnie Davis

Even if the stars align and politicians are able to put aside their differences for the greater good, recovery for the printing industry ain't a-happening in any meaningful way in 2013. NAPL expects industry sales to grow somewhere between 1.0 percent and 2.5 percent.

Sustained economic growth and smart adoption of technologies to create new value-added services have helped put the U.S. printing industry in its strongest position in many years. That was the consensus of the speakers at the first NPES Industry Summit, held recently in Chicago. It provided an optimistic view of print’s current and future prospects and a preview of the world’s most promising future growth markets. The Summit, presented by NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, combined the 26th edition of the PRINT OUTLOOK economic forecasting conference with the NPES Spring Conference and the Spring meeting of PRIMIR, the Print