Supply Chain Conditions Worsening

By Bob Neubauer

Supply chain shortages continue to have a significant impact on the printing industry, and according to the second-quarter 2022 PRINTING United Alliance/NAPCO Research State of the Industry Survey, they are getting worse. Nearly 300 printing companies from across the United States and Canada participated in the survey. An in-depth executive summary is available here.

Topics for this targeted supply chain study included:

Substrate availability and pricing changes
Consumable availability and pricing changes
Effects of supply chain disruption on revenue
Supply chain market shifts and expectation trends
Sentiment around major issues and solutions

The report also covers why the American economy is likely to weaken over the next 12 months and how print providers can protect themselves from the downturn.

Download the executive summary here.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.