Quarterly Index of A/E/C reprographer sales revenues from "plans printed on paper" (Q1 2011 update)

This is the 1^st Quarter 2011 update to the index of the U.S.A. A/E/C reprographics industry's sales revenues of "plans-printed-on-paper".

The A/E/C Repro PPoP Index .....

This index does not attempt to track "total sales" of A/E/C reprographers. It attempts to track only sales of "plans printed on paper," which, traditionally and even nowadays, is the core (main) revenue generator for all A/E/C reprographers.

And, by "plans printed on paper", I mean A/E/C "plans", large-format, b/w and color, unbound or bound, full-size, half-size, whatever l/f size.

There will be a recovery in the A/E/C industry and thereby in the A/E/C reprographics industry. However, some are saying that even though there will be a recovery in the A/E/C industry, the recovery of sales revenues from "plans printed on paper" may not mirror the A/E/C industry's recovery, since some are expecting (I guess I should say, some are saying) that revenues from printing plans on paper are being negatively impacted by customers distributing CD's (or files) instead of distributing "hard copy" plans.

For this index, Q1 2006 is the ground-zero (base) point.

YR-- 2006-----2007-----2008----- 2009-----2010------2011

Q1-- 1.00-------1.09-------1.10------0.65------0.55-----0.65

Q2-- 1.06-------1.18-------0.98------0.65------0.60

Q3-- 1.08-------0.97-------0.85------0.57------0.60

Q4-- 0.89-------0.93-------0.64------0.49------0.58

A NOTE OF CAUTION TO PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS INDEX! THE EFFECTS OF AN ACQUISITION (BY A SUPPLIER/VENDOR) HAVE SLIGHTLY DISTORTED - TO THE UPSIDE - THE INDEX FOR Q4 2010! KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU "PONDER" THE INDEX NUMBERS.

Regarding the above comment, on April 6, 2011, when we posted the index reading for Q1 2011, we retroactively adjusted downward the index reading for Q4 2010; this to make an adjustment for the effect of an acquisition. We originally posted an index reading of .63 for Q4 2010. We’ve just adjusted that index reading to .58.

(This index is based on A/E/C Repro Vendor sales to A/E/C Reprographers)