Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

Getting Past the Template

Published March 18, 2009

One Newspaper Fights Back... in Color!

Published March 16, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Employment 2002,2005,2008

Published March 16, 2009

Thoughts and Rants that Run Through My Head

Published March 11, 2009

Economics Data You're Not Seeing

Published March 9, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Establishments 2004-2009

Published March 9, 2009

Recovery Indicators Take a Mild Beating

Published March 4, 2009

The Swamp Got Deeper

Published March 2, 2009

U.S. Commerical Printing's Relationship to GDP

Published March 2, 2009

Get Ready for the Post-Recession Printing Industry... Whenever that May Be

Published February 25, 2009

How to Remain viable in the Communications Marketplace

Published February 23, 2009

Federal Reserve Commercial Printing Capacity Utilization

Published February 23, 2009

Price Cutting and Print Competition

Published February 17, 2009

The Stimulus Passed... Now What

Published February 16, 2009

Size of the U.S. Printing Industry Compared to other Industries

Published February 16, 2009

Media Shifts Evidenced in Employment Data: Public Relations Emerges from the Shadows

Published February 11, 2009

You Have to Look Under the Hood

Published February 9, 2009

Change in Employment December 2003 vs. December 2008

Published February 9, 2009

Are We There Yet?

Published February 4, 2009

Mischaracterizing the Economy

Published February 2, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 50+ Employees

Published February 2, 2009

A Poorly Printed Book: Maybe We Should Ask Why

Published January 28, 2009

Welcome to the "Offline Media" Business

Published January 26, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 10-49 Employees

Published January 26, 2009

Dr. Joe Interviews Dr. Michael Cunningham

Published January 23, 2009

Dr. Joe's Economic Recovery Plan

Published January 19, 2009

So, Dr. Joe, Where's All That Inflation You Warned Us About?

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Difference in Revenue Trends Among General Commercial Printers vs. Digital Commercial Printers

Published January 15, 2009

When Will Things Get Better?

Published January 14, 2009

Time to Recalibrate Our Resolutions

Published January 12, 2009

Odds and Ends as We Close Out 2008

Published December 17, 2008

Does “Marketing Services” Make a Difference?

Published December 15, 2008

Capacity Utilization in 20+ Year Decline

Published December 15, 2008

Answers to December 10th's Webinar Questions

Published December 10, 2008

Recessions and Technological Change

Published December 8, 2008

Business Confidence of Leading Graphic Designers

Published December 8, 2008

Twenty-five Years

Published December 1, 2008

Change in Publishing and Content Creation Employment

Published December 1, 2008

The Economy: More stuffing than turkey

Published November 25, 2008

Births and Deaths of U.S. Commercial Printing Establishments

Published November 24, 2008

Trudging Through the Economic Swampland

Published November 24, 2008

Catching Up with the Economy and Optimistic Old Media Guys

Published November 18, 2008

The Postal Service Blames the Economy for Its Shortfall; Don't Believe It

Published November 17, 2008

Education and the Graphic Arts: What's Next?

Published November 17, 2008

Technology Waits for No One, When the Market Goes One Way, Be Sure to Go the Other Way

Published November 12, 2008

4-quarter Change in Net Sales of Publicly Traded Commercial Printers

Published November 10, 2008

Planning Often Gets in the Way of Running Business Well

Published November 10, 2008

News, Unproven Illusions, and Plain Speaking

Published November 4, 2008

Number of U.S. Graphic Design Establishments

Published November 4, 2008

Entrepreneurs are not Pessimists; Reality Matters

Published November 3, 2008

Old Age and Treachery... and Youth and Skill

Published October 29, 2008

Number of U.S. Advertising Agency Establishments

Published October 27, 2008

Increased Materials Costs Paid with Lower Wages and Steeply Lower Profits

Published October 22, 2008

Number of U.S. Periodical Publishing Establishments

Published October 20, 2008

Here We Go Again... Pass the Antacid

Published October 20, 2008

Number of U.S. Newspaper Pulishing Establishments, by number of employees

Published October 13, 2008

Reading the Debris Instead of the Tea Leaves

Published October 12, 2008

Tenure of The Average Chief Marketing Officer is Just 26 Months: Why That's Great News for Printers

Published October 6, 2008

Number of U.S. Commerical Printing Establishments, by number of employees

Published October 6, 2008

We've Made the Turn: Not Recession, It's Worse

Published October 5, 2008

Ignore the Economics and Move on as Best You Can

Published October 1, 2008

Renewing the Printing Industry

Published October 1, 2008

Renewing the Printing Industry: Strategies and Action Items for Success.

Change in Shipments per U.S. Commerical Printing Employee, 1994-2008

Published September 29, 2008

The Future is More Certain Than Usually Thought

Published September 29, 2008

How to Renew Our Industry... Again

Published September 24, 2008

Inflation is Dead: The World is Safe for Commerce Again... No, Not Really

Published September 22, 2008

Changes in Employment 1994-2008 in Various Packaging Sectors

Published September 22, 2008

Road Warrior: Today, Sept. 20, is Software Freedom Day

Published September 20, 2008

Turmoil in the Financial Markets... Again.

Published September 18, 2008

Turmoil in the Financial Markets... Again.

Published September 15, 2008

Paper Industry Shipments and Profits

Published September 15, 2008

Who Bears the Brunt of Bad Forecasting? Rarely the Forecasters!

Published September 15, 2008

Beware the iPhone: It's a Way of Avoiding Print

Published September 10, 2008

Newspaper Industry Woes Not Being Cured by Online Revenues

Published September 8, 2008

Slow Economic Growth Teases Us; High Inflation Bludgeons Us

Published September 8, 2008

Road Warrior: Are You Measuring the Right Things?

Published September 2, 2008

Which Commerical Printers Groups are Most Interested in Web-to-Print Storefronts and Infrastructure

Published September 1, 2008

Embracing Change is Dumb Because Change is Always Happening

Published August 27, 2008

Average Hourly Earnings of Commerical Printing Production Workers

Published August 25, 2008

Inflation is Here and Don't We All Know It

Published August 25, 2008

Dr. Joe Hits a Postal Nerve: Playing Football with Baseball Bats?

Published August 18, 2008

Publicly Traded Printers: 4-quarter Inflation-adjusted Change in Net Sales

Published August 18, 2008

If Planning Is So Good, How Come Performance is So Bad?

Published August 18, 2008

Reality and the Postal Service Don't Mix

Published August 13, 2008

Consumer Magazine Ad Pages

Published August 11, 2008

The Economy Will Be All Better Now: Yeah, Right

Published August 11, 2008

Desktop Publishing's Legacy: 230,000 Fewer Commercial Printing Workers, and An Explosion in Content Creation Workers

Published August 7, 2008

Desktop Publishing's Legacy: 230,000 Fewer Commercial Printing Workers, and An Explosion in Content Creation Workers

Published August 7, 2008

Which Commercial Printers Groups are Most Interested in VDP and PURL Software

Published August 4, 2008

The Economic Sidestep

Published August 4, 2008

Cost Cutting is a Downhill Street with a Cliff at the End

Published July 30, 2008

Can't The Economy Make Up its Mind?

Published July 28, 2008

Which Commercial Printer Groups are Most Interested in Production Mid- and High-Volume Digital Color Printing

Published July 28, 2008

The Russians Are Coming? Is Heidelberg Kidding? No.

Published July 23, 2008

What Commercial Printers With 50+ Employees are Doing In Response to the Slow Economy

Published July 21, 2008

Recession or Not: Not is Still Ahead

Published July 21, 2008

Inflation Data Get Worse, and the Fed Won't Clean Up the Mess

Published July 16, 2008

Don't Worry, Things May Get Worse…or They May Not

Published July 14, 2008

What Commercial Printers With 10-49 Employees are Doing In Response to the Slow Economy

Published July 14, 2008

Articles by Dr. Joe Webb