Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

Change in magazine circulation, population growth, and magazine titles

Published December 10, 2007

October Commercial Printing Industry Shipments Up +$253 Million

Published December 5, 2007

Offshoring and the Decline of Manufacturing Jobs in the US

Published December 3, 2007

Wishful Thinking; E-Books; Inbox; Road Warrior

Published December 3, 2007

Canada Mailing Trends: Rate of Change in Number of Pieces

Published December 3, 2007

Don't Get Excited Over 4.9% GDP Growth

Published November 30, 2007

Comparing Small Versus Large Printers' Most Important Digital Printing Attribute

Published November 26, 2007

A Foot on the Throat; Trade and Commodities; Dr Joe's Inbox; Missing software

Published November 26, 2007

Stock Buybacks are Disappointing... or Worse

Published November 20, 2007

Change in Commercial Printing Employment Since 1994

Published November 19, 2007

What Effect Does Digitization Really Have on Printing?

Published November 19, 2007

ROAD WARRIOR: Free Software is Quite Impressive and Recommended

Published November 12, 2007

Employment down; decision makers shifting to digital media; iPhone gPhone; new tools draw new workers

Published November 12, 2007

Where are "Net New Businesses" Being Created?

Published November 12, 2007

The Trade Poison Pen Letter: A Response

Published November 10, 2007

Of Course the Trade Gap Narrowed... The Economy is Slow

Published November 9, 2007

Total Debt Out of Control?

Published November 8, 2007

Monday's Non-Manufacturing Report Is Reassuring... and Other Items

Published November 5, 2007

Canada's Commercial Printing and GDP

Published November 5, 2007

Economic Data a Mess; Printing Shipments; Industry Education Needs Our Support

Published November 5, 2007

Printing Shipments Up, Economic Data Disappointing

Published November 2, 2007

Fed Cuts by Quarter Point, and GDP +3.8%

Published October 31, 2007

Please, Not Another Rate Cut

Published October 30, 2007

A Crisis in Print Buying? Dr. Joe Disagrees.

Published October 29, 2007

Print: Cheaper Every Day?

Published October 29, 2007

Best of Dr Joe: Comparing Technologies of the Past; More PR Euphemisms

Published October 22, 2007

Exports of Commercial Printing

Published October 22, 2007

Look at Magazine Revenue Increase Data with a Skeptical Eye

Published October 16, 2007

Ready for $100 Oil?

Published October 15, 2007

Imports of Commercial Printing

Published October 15, 2007

Industry Employment Data; Comparing Us to Them; Dr Joe is Cynical; Catalogers Embrace the Internet; GM Thinking applied to Printing Industry

Published October 15, 2007

Deja Vu All Over Again

Published October 8, 2007

Color Digital Printing Demand by Shop Size

Published October 8, 2007

The Unemployment Report That Won't Be in the Newspapers

Published October 5, 2007

Printing Shipments in August Up Slightly, and Other News

Published October 4, 2007

ROAD WARRIOR: Beware Ye Excel 2007 Users!

Published October 3, 2007

The Sky's Not Falling, It's Just a Little Loose

Published October 2, 2007

Births and Deaths of Commercial Printing Establishment

Published October 1, 2007

Q&A Economic Outlook Webinar; mortgage fiasco; effect of printing standardization on prices and print volumes; future growth of digital production color printing

Published October 1, 2007

WhatTheyThink Economic Outlook Webinar

Published September 24, 2007

Economic Outlook Webinar, the iPhone is a Computer, Dr. Joe's Inbox

Published September 24, 2007

Paper Industry Shipments and Profits

Published September 24, 2007

Fed Cuts Rates a Half Point... Just Like We Wanted, Not Like We Forecast

Published September 18, 2007

GE07: Mondays with Dr. Joe Webb: Graph Expo, Who Should Go To Shows?, Dr. Joe's Inbox

Published September 17, 2007

Printing as a Percentage of GDP

Published September 17, 2007

Excellent Print Profits Reported for Q2-2007

Published September 10, 2007

Freelance Employment Growth

Published September 10, 2007

The Unemployment Report that's Not Being Reported

Published September 7, 2007

You Won't Read This Economic Analysis Anywhere Else

Published September 6, 2007

Road Warrior: Acer Buys Gateway; Forced to Use Windows by Court Order

Published September 5, 2007

How Printing is Performing Compared to Other Manufacturing Industries?

Published September 4, 2007

Pricing Changes and the Influence of Competition

Published September 3, 2007

July Printing Shipments Up $138 Million, and a Comment about Yesterday's Q2 GDP Revision

Published August 31, 2007

The Fed is Ready to Make a Real Cut

Published August 29, 2007

Using time better, Fed Faux Pas, Email Effectiveness, Social Networking, and Dr. Joe's Inbox

Published August 27, 2007

E-Commerce Still a Growth Business

Published August 27, 2007

Make Up Your Mind Already

Published August 26, 2007

Now All Economic Data Will Be Suspect for a While

Published August 21, 2007

Collaboration in New Media and Social Networking, Having a Cow over Rupert, and Dr. Joe's Inbox

Published August 20, 2007

Rates of Change in Employment

Published August 20, 2007

The Fed Blinks

Published August 17, 2007

The Growing Service Economy Sectors

Published August 13, 2007

Just when you think the panic is over, sideways is our way, and why I don't get digital magazines

Published August 13, 2007

Rate of Change in Postal Weight

Published August 13, 2007

Yawwwwwnnnnn..... Fed Doesn't Move

Published August 7, 2007

Which way is up?, Printing shipments, GDP and print

Published August 6, 2007

Net New Business Growth

Published August 6, 2007

Road Warrior: Switching from Windows to Linux

Published August 5, 2007

June Printing Shipments Flat Compared to 2006

Published August 2, 2007

The Changing Mix of Graphic Design Employees and Freelancers

Published July 30, 2007

Best of Dr. Joe: Translation Services

Published July 30, 2007

Was Adobe's Action an Attempt to Monetize Free Content?

Published July 29, 2007

When data contradict, Chairman Ben, and Industry Stocks

Published July 23, 2007

Capital expenditure on used equipment drops

Published July 23, 2007

Offense or Defense? Free Almost No-brainer Marketing

Published July 16, 2007

Change in value of imports and exports

Published July 16, 2007

More on the Adobe Kerfuffle

Published July 9, 2007

Seasonality in the Commercial Printing Business

Published July 9, 2007

That Confounding Economy, iPhone liftoff, and the Adobe Thing

Published July 9, 2007

May Printing Shipments Down -$165 Million, -1.9%

Published July 5, 2007

Adobe and Kinko's - printing industry kerfuffle

Published July 2, 2007

Publishing and Advertising Revenues

Published July 2, 2007

Content King?, The Content-Distribution Bridge, and Being Well Qualified

Published June 25, 2007

Fed Capacity Utilization Data

Published June 25, 2007

Can Someone Make Up Their Minds?, Profits Moving Sideways, Those Were the Days, and Admirable Printers

Published June 18, 2007

Commercial Printing Output and Production Hours

Published June 18, 2007

Industry profits up 20% in First Quarter

Published June 12, 2007

Is The Internet's Downward Pressure on Print Shipments Over?

Published June 11, 2007

Printing Shipments, Economy Bounceback?, ad:tech, and Summer Reading

Published June 11, 2007

April Printing Shipments +2.2%

Published June 4, 2007

GDP & Print Revisited on Rate of Change Basis

Published June 4, 2007

Dr. Joe Interviews Dr. Michael Cunningham (Audio)

Published June 4, 2007

Sideways is Considered Good News

Published June 1, 2007

The Postal Service, Magazines, and Korea... huh?

Published May 31, 2007

Digging Into the Commerce Department's Major Revisions to Commercial Printing Shipments Data

Published May 29, 2007

Sweeping Revisions to Printing Shipments Data

Published May 29, 2007

Dr. Joe Webb presents "Creating New Value for Print"

Published May 23, 2007

That Darn Economy, Industry Productivity, Road Warrior

Published May 21, 2007

Productivity, Content Creation Industries, and The Postal Service

Published May 21, 2007

Paper Tariff Questions and Comments

Published May 17, 2007

Articles by Dr. Joe Webb