Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

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

What Commercial Printers With 1-9 Employees are Doing In Response to the Slow Economy

Published July 7, 2008

Stagflation is Here: It Will Be Nasty; and Some Random Rants

Published July 5, 2008

Industry Trends Just a Click Away

Published June 30, 2008

Net New Businesses

Published June 30, 2008

Rate of Change in Employment in Printing and Content Creation Industries

Published June 23, 2008

The 6/18 Economic Webinar: Dr. Joe's Reading List

Published June 18, 2008

More Inflation News, and a Comment About "Obscene" Profits

Published June 17, 2008

Annualized Publishing and Advertising Revenues

Published June 16, 2008

Finally, The Fed Discovers Inflation

Published June 16, 2008

Inflation Adjusted US Commerical Print Shipments

Published June 9, 2008

The Supposed Recession: Get Used to Not Having One

Published June 9, 2008

Thirty Years Ago This Date

Published June 5, 2008

The Press and the Experts... Getting it Wrong... Again

Published June 2, 2008

Graphic Designer Business Confidence versus Consumer Confidence

Published June 2, 2008

Recession Mongers Disappointed Again

Published May 29, 2008

Commerce Department Revisions to U.S. Printing Shipments Data

Published May 19, 2008

Commerce Department Revises Seven Years of Data: A New Look at Industry Trends

Published May 19, 2008

Picking on the Post Office: Mail Volume

Published May 12, 2008

Odds & Ends, and the "Other" Dr. Joe

Published May 7, 2008

Inflation-Adjusted Sales of Major Printers

Published May 5, 2008

Positively Disappointing

Published May 5, 2008

GDP Not Negative, and Fed Acts

Published April 30, 2008

The Other Shoe Has Dropped

Published April 28, 2008

Federal Reserve Capacity Utilization

Published April 28, 2008

Best of Dr. Joe: The Forecasting Game

Published April 21, 2008

Is Digital More Environmentally Friendly Than Offset?

Published April 21, 2008

Again, Recession Mongers are Disappointed; More Odds & Ends

Published April 17, 2008

Odds and Ends: Don't Get Dr. Joe Started!

Published April 15, 2008

Paper Industry Shipments and Profits

Published April 14, 2008

Inflation and Its Discontents

Published April 14, 2008

Recession or Not? Indicators Say No

Published April 7, 2008

Shipments per Establishment Change Data

Published April 7, 2008

Shipments, Profits, Amazon.com, and Poor Financials

Published April 3, 2008

Profits Report Out, Disappointing

Published April 2, 2008

Printing Sales Per Employee 1994-2007

Published March 31, 2008

Questions and Answers from Last Week's Webinar

Published March 31, 2008

Commercial Printers in U.S. Not Prepared for Inflationary Environment

Published March 24, 2008

Economic Outlook Webinar; Social Networking; Big News From GM

Published March 24, 2008

The Fed, China, and GM... and GM's News is More Important

Published March 18, 2008

Economic Outlook Webinar; Dr. Joe's InBox; Road Warrior

Published March 17, 2008

Rate of Change in Pieces Mailed by USPS (2000-2007)

Published March 17, 2008

Economy; Printing Shipments; Annual Growth

Published March 10, 2008

Web-to-Print Storefronts As Key Investment Area,By Segment

Published March 10, 2008

Dr. Joe's Secret Notes about Digital Printing from OnDemand Expo

Published March 8, 2008

January Printing Shipments -- Please, Can We Change the Subject?

Published March 5, 2008

Broadband: Contributing to a Decline in Print

Published March 3, 2008

High End Digital Color As Key Investment Area

Published March 3, 2008

Full-company MIS Essential for Long-Term Survival

Published February 25, 2008

The Best of Dr. Joe: Quebecor Shakeup

Published February 25, 2008

Web-to-Print Storefronts As Key Investment Area

Published February 25, 2008

Print's Prices are Declining: Just Not Enough

Published February 19, 2008

MIS As Key Investment Area

Published February 18, 2008

ROI is Overrated, Media of a New Generation

Published February 18, 2008

Common Wisdom Makes for Bad Excuses

Published February 11, 2008

Commercial Printing Prices Lag Inflation

Published February 11, 2008

2007's Printing Shipments; Students are Smarter than the Teachers

Published February 11, 2008

December Printing Shipments +$110 Million; +1.3% for Year; Inflation-adjusted Results Disappoint

Published February 4, 2008

Graphic Design and Ad Agency Employment, '07 vs. '06

Published February 4, 2008

Slow is Not a Recession; USPS Shipments Down

Published February 4, 2008

Internet Shakeup, and Economic Data Disappoint

Published February 1, 2008

Dr. Joe Asks "Is This 1974 Again?"...and Comments About "That Video"

Published January 28, 2008

Expectation of 2008 Commercial Printing Sales by Employees Size

Published January 28, 2008

Calling it "Pretty Ugly" Was Optimistic

Published January 22, 2008

2007 Commercial Printing Sales by Primary Business Segment

Published January 21, 2008

Latest Economic News: Not Pretty, Not Ugly, But Actually Pretty Ugly

Published January 16, 2008

2007 Commercial Printing Sales by Employee Size

Published January 14, 2008

Goldman Sachs; Your Company's Financial Performance; Lack of Data Myth

Published January 14, 2008

Trade Deficit Up, But Not Because We Imported More Goods

Published January 11, 2008

Did Commercial Printers Report Sales Increases in '07?

Published January 7, 2008

Starting the Year With an Economic Mess; Printing Shipments Up; Economic News Disappoints

Published January 7, 2008

The Parade Still Went On, Proving that Print is "Old Media"

Published January 6, 2008

Commercial Printing Shipments Disappoint; So Does ISM Manufacturing

Published January 3, 2008

Stock Buybacks: A Dissenting Opinion; Dr. Joe's Inbox - See You in 2008

Published December 17, 2007

No Change in E-Commerce and Commercial Print Relationship

Published December 17, 2007

Subprime dominates; Printing shipments almost encouraging

Published December 10, 2007

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