Ink Industry Hopeful, Despite Adversities

While this doesn't reflect the costs issue, it says that printers are buying more ink—regardless of price. Specifically, the increasing use of combination printing on narrow-web label presses has spurred growth in screen, flexo, and offset inks over the last year, Waddington said. NAPIM, based on a survey of the first three-quarters of 2005, reported that both gravure and flexo solvent inks saw volume growth greater than 5 percent, indicating that the flexible packaging sector was expanding, Coleman said.