Quarterly Index of A/E/C reprographer sales revenues from "plans printed on paper”: Q3 2013 update

This is the 3^rd Quarter-2013 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”.

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 large-format size.

Here’s what we’ve been saying, nearly every past quarter:

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 distributing / sharing files) instead of printing and distributing "hard copy" plans.

If you want the pdf file that contains the Q3 2013 Repro PPoP Index, send an e-mail to joel.salus@mac.com.