The Cold. Hard. Facts.
The “other” category took a dramatic tumble down to $472.5 million (2008: $724.8 million). But the discrepancy can be easily explained. This year, the Print Professional staff made some minor edits to the forms turned in by participants. One of these changes included making “envelopes” its own category, and envelopes were traditionally the number-one product sold under the “other” category. Now standing alone, envelope sales finished big with $327.7 million. With envelopes no longer an option for the “other” category, common responses for this sector were office products, roll products, warehousing/fulfillment, database services, cut sheets, CDs/DVDs, looseleaf products, bindery/finishing and digital barcodes. It is important to note that some of these entries may further skew the “other” category because the decision to consider cut sheets as something miscellaneous instead of a form product, for example, boils down to the opinion of the manufacturer.