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Paper Outlook for Q2--Prices Holding Through Spring

April 1998
Not long after revelers congregated in Times Square to watch the ball drop, signaling the start of 1998, paper prices reflected the first increase of the new year.

"It was three dollars per hundred weight or roughly 6.5 percent on a typical 40/45 lb. number four or five sheet," relates Bruce Janis, president of MSPGA: Management Science for the Publishing and Graphic Arts, of the first-quarter jump.




















 

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MSPGA Internal Paper Analysis
Market Prices Charged by 10 Sample Printers
&nbsp45 lb. No.540 lb. No.5
Printers
(anon.)		Nov.Mar.Nov.Mar.
A$42.90$45.75$45.76$48.75
B$41.85$44.86$44.20$47.00
C$43.75$46.75$43.00$46.00
D$44.55$48.68$47.52$50.25
E$44.59$47.50$50.55$52.50
F$42.55$45.70$44.10$47.25
G$45.55$48.00$46.85$50.00

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