New Data on Manufacturing Sector

A new IPG survey of in-plants in the manufacturing sector has yielded some interesting results:

• The most common items printed are business forms (75% print them), tags/labels (72%) and brochures (69%).

• Though slightly more (72%) offer offset printing than digital printing (69%), an impressive 54% handle CD/DCD production.

• Less than half (45%) handle variable data printing.

• Insourcing is done by 61%, with 40% of this work coming from local businesses.

See the full report in our September issue.