About the survey results:
The survey
consisted of 29 questions. When you open
the survey-results file, you will first see (pages 1-15) the compiled responses
to each question. But, go beyond page 15, for some of the questions asked for text
(or numerical) responses, and those responses (text responses or numerical
responses) begin on page 16.
Very light turnout, only 22 companies
participated in the survey. Quite disappointing, and I almost decided not
to bother publishing the survey results.
Was the lack
of participation due to reprographer-apathy?
Was it due to this survey not being “sanctioned” by the IRgA? Do reprographers not really care to see
what’s going on, trend-wise, vis a vis
their peers? Or, perhaps RSA and
ReproMAX have been conducting their own surveys. (If they haven’t been doing that, that’s
stupid.) Since 2008 (2009 for some), the industry has experienced a severe
downturn in revenues, especially revenues related to printed plans and
specs. Many are still struggling to find
ways to replace lost revenues; many don’t feel that plan and spec printing
revenues will ever recover to what they formerly were. However, that said, most reprographers remain
optimistic about the future …. and that, for sure, is a good thing.
I’d like to
thank those companies who did participate in the survey.
At this
point, it is highly unlikely that I’ll bother to do any more surveys in the
future. Likely that I’ll leave that to
the IRgA.
If you would
like to receive the survey-results file, please send a “request” to joel.salus@mac.com
Joel Salus,
Publisher
Reprographics
101 Blog
The
survey-results file is copyrighted.
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