OTTAWA—Here's something we haven't seen for a long time: printing volume actually increased in early 2012, with shipments up in January and February compared to the same months last year (up 1.4% in January and 3.4% in February). The numbers were down in March, but let's hope this is a glitch and the upward trend holds.

Shipments	March 2012	March 2011	% change
March ($M)	$656.5	$735.2	-12.0
YTD ($B)	$1.8	$1.9	-2.8