The 2007 View of US Print Market Segments table contains information on aggregate numbers for the seventeen market segments covered by PIA/GATF.

As can be seen from this data, the printing industry produces approximately $174.5 billion dollars worth of goods and services and employs over one million people in 38,819 establishments. However, this number shrank from 42,976 plants in 2004 and 39,387 plants in 2005, indicating further consolidation and plant closings.

Compared to 2005, twelve of the seventeen print markets had increased shipment values, though several markets (e.g. magazine, book, and screen printing) experienced nominal increases.  From 2005 to 2007 there was an overall increase of $9 billion in shipments (about 2.6% per each of the past two years). The segments with decreased shipment values were financial and legal printing, business forms printing, greeting card printing, thermography, and prepress services.

Overall employment has dropped by approximately 33,000 people since 2005, continuing the trend of declining employment. Only two market segments saw an increase in employment — newspaper printing and specialty printing— which the rest saw a decrease in employment. The prepress services segment accounted for the bulk of the decline, losing more than 50% of its positions since 2005.