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Commercial printing is Canada’s longest established and most widely
dispersed information technology-based manufacturing industry. The commercial
printing industry is primarily made up of owner-managed small and medium
enterprises (SMEs). These SME’s are located in every region and community
in the country. They provide essential services that support other
manufacturing industries as well as every other sector of the economy.
- Canada’s commercial printing industry is the fourth largest
manufacturing employer with more than 84 000 employees working in 5834
establishments.
- The Canadian printing industry is the second largest on-line seller in
Canada (in terms of business to business and business to consumer) surpassed
only by the transportation equipment manufacturing sector.
- The printing industry ranks third with 13.2 percent of its companies
selling over the internet surpassed only by electrical equipment, appliance and
component manufacturing at 17.7 percent and textile product mills at 17.2
percent.
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