A Look at the Publication Printing Industry’s Financial Reports

It’s the season for annual reports to come out, which offers a glimpse at how individual companies and industries are faring financially. The ink industry is not particularly easy to examine, as few companies are publicly owned. Most of the publicly-held companies that do manufacture ink – DuPont, CR/T (part of Quad/Graphics) and EFI come to mind – don’t break out their ink sales. However, many of the leading printers are publicly owned, and we can take a look at how these companies...