2014 Ratios Survey Shows Printing Industry Profits Stalled in 2013
Seventy percent of North American printers continue to operate in the black even as top-line challenges in sales remain. Printers participating in this years’ Ratios Survey attained average profit rates of 2.6 percent on salesdown slightly from 2.7 percent last year. This is still above the trailing 12-year average profit for all printers of 2.0 percent.