For the most part, packaging is impervious to economic downturns, since consumers will always have to buy certain products. That has always been good news for packaging ink manufacturers. On the surface, the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers’ (NAPIM) survey of ink companies for the first half of 2003 confirms that despite the continued economic problems in the U.S., all is relatively fine in the packaging ink field. According to the survey, packaging ink sales have remained fai...