Printing employment has declined every year since 2001 except for a very small uptick in 2005.- Printing plants have declined every year since peaking in number in 1994.
- There are still more printing plants in the U.S. than McDonald’s outlets in the world.
- There are about the same number of printing plants in the U.S. as supermarkets in the U.S.
(Taken from the latest Economic and Print Market Flash Report from Printing Industries of America’s Economic Research Department, May 2010)