Special Interest Groups Find your niche and specialized products and services in one of PIA and GATF's special interest groups. Walker Communications, New York, NY has been commissioned to complete research on a study of Magazines in the 2000-2010 Era .
Magazines are the single largest component of the North American commercial printing industry.
There are questions as to how other methods of communication will impact the magazine in the future, how new printing technologies will affect the operational requirements of magazine publishers and their ultimate impact on suppliers to the industry. The study will profile the magazine industry, assess key changes taking place in the magazine industry, forces behind those changes, and factors that will determine the structure and growth of the North American magazine industry for the next ten years. This study will focus on the underlying conditions, facts, and opinions that will result in the growth or decline of the North American polyester printing plate market between 2000 and 2005. It will address requirements for plate utilization, growth, barriers to adoption, present use of polyester plates in both analog and digital markets, relationship of polyester plates to metal plates, current and future applications and more. Of significance in this study will be the identification of why and how a printer decided to use metal versus polyester plates.