The Printing Business

Rowell's Newspaper Reporter and Printers' Oazette confirma other evidence in reporting the newspaper and printing business in New York city at its very lowest ebb. Never a year, it says, in the mernory of the oldest printer has the business been more unproütable; the circixlation and advertising patronage of the newspapers have fallen off alarmingly; not ono of the large book and job offices has even a fair supply of work; competition was never so active, and prices are absurdly low. There are now in the city 500 printers out of work, and, though the nominal prices for piece-work range from 40 to 45 cents a thousand, many offices pay but 80 cents, and weekly wagea range from $15 and $16 to $18 and $19, and first-class Adams pressnien are down to $20. The country printing offices, as a rule, we think, are in better condition than this; certainly the jear 1876 was an average good one with them for hard times; but we fear 1877 is to borrow its quality from the present condition of things in