Trends in Printing.

Printing and publishing produced products in 1978 valued at about $53 billion, and they are predicted to increase at the rate of about 10.5 percent per year by 1983. The trends in each of the segments of the printing industry are discussed: newspapers, magazine and book publishing and printing, business forms, commercial printing and miscellaneous products and services. New developments are described in KC Technology, laser imaging, phototypesetting, electronic page makeup, scanners, color previewers, daylight films, automated imposition, plates, press controls, infrared ink drying, screenless printing, electronic printing, and government regulations. Lithography continues to dominate the printing processes as gravure and flexography grow at the expense of letterpress.