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The 10 Best Commercial Printing Datasets in 2026

10 Commercial printing picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. Statistics Canada - Manufacturing Data by NAICS 3231 leads.

  • 10ranked picks
  • 19documented fields on stage
  • 1/4with mapped coverage

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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

  1. 1 US Census Bureau - Economic Census, ASM County Business Patterns
  2. 2 US BLS Public Data API - PPI, CES OES for Printing
  3. 3 9/10
    Commercial printing

    Statistics Canada - Manufacturing Data by NAICS 3231

    REF_DATE · GEO · DGUID …+8 more

  4. 4 UK ONS - Manufacturing Industry Statistics for Printing
  5. 5 US BEA - GDP Industry Accounts for Printing
  6. 6 6/10
    Industrial gases EU member states, EFTA, EU institutions and…

    data.europa.eu - EU open data portal

    8 core fields per record · country · title …+5 more

    Scored lower because rows are metadata cards, not measurements - but as the fastest way to find which national agency holds a given print statistic, nothing else in the slice competes.

  7. 7 PRINTING United Alliance - Industry Economics Market Research
  8. 8 6/10
    Commercial printing

    bvdm - Bundesverband Druck und Medien

  9. 9 6/10
    Commercial printing

    BPIF - British Printing Industries Federation

    Ranks below bvdm on cadence but above every other UK sentiment source on continuity.

  10. 10 WhatTheyThink - Printing Industry News, Pricing Activity Index

Frequently asked questions

What data sizes the US commercial printing market?

The Census Bureau cluster. County Business Patterns gives annual establishment and payroll counts, the Economic Census adds five-year benchmarks for 2017 and 2022, and the Annual Survey of Manufactures plus its AIES successor report value of product shipments for NAICS 3231, with the first AIES release covering 2023.

Where can I track UK printing output month by month?

The ONS Index of Production publishes a dedicated Division 18 printing index - about 620 monthly periods through June 2026 inside a CSV of roughly 1,134 series, 39 of them printing-related. Annual PRODCOM product sales, ABS four-digit data and IDBR business counts from 2014 to 2025 complete the picture.

Is there a single record isolating printing inside national accounts?

Yes - the BEA GDP-by-industry accounts. They isolate printing (NAICS 323) within US national accounts with annual value added from 1997 and quarterly figures from 2005, across GDPbyIndustry, UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry and KLEMS tables, using BEA industry codes with a published NAICS concordance.

Which sources track printer sentiment rather than hard numbers?

Three complement each other: PRINTING United Alliance's State of the Industry and Print Business Outlook for North America, bvdm's monthly Konjunkturtelegramm for Germany, and BPIF's quarterly Printing Outlook for the UK. Each aggregates the sector by segment and region rather than naming individual producers.

How is commercial printing data delivered?

Daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Records land as typed rows with the field dictionary attached, into your warehouse, your files, or whatever channel your stack already speaks. Name the geography or NAICS slice and a sample arrives cut to it, so the decision happens on real rows.