Friday, March 31, 2006
February Printing Shipments Down -1.9%
February printing shipments of $6.9 billion were down -1.9% compared to February 2005. The decrease of -$139 million was accompanied by a revision to January's shipments, which were revised down by an additional -$30 million. For the first two months of the year, NAICS 323 commercial printing shipments are down -3.2% on a current dollar basis. On an inflation-adjusted basis, shipments were down for
February by -5.4%
