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Problem is, most of us here work for one or two industries, graphic design and publication. A lot work for printing suppliers, not customers.

Check with your university library. I suspect that there are government statistics on this that will be much more useful than anecdotal postings.

Printers unions probably have this information.

It’s the graphic designers who I thought might be able to work it out who they are designing for . . . because most of their work goes to printers.

You know what I mean? if Designer A does 6 jobs for medical, 12 jobs for electrical, 4 jobs for, let’s say automotive, logically these are jobs to be printed for these various business sectors?

Or is there another reason people do DTP?

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…if Designer A does 6 jobs for medical, 12 jobs for electrical, 4 jobs for, let’s say automotive, logically these are jobs to be printed for these various business sectors?

Almost no design practices have a large or wide enough customer base for their replies to be relevant. Design firms are small and tend to stay local. If you want meaningful numbers, you need to get them from someone who communicates with a lot of printers and can sift through the data on a large scale. To get real answers you need to do some real research and not just ask people for answers online.

Or is there another reason people do DTP?

DTP is not what designers do. It’s a tool that designers use.

My best guess.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E0DE1239F935A35752C0A...