In an effort to assess the manpower implications of technological innovations in the printing and publishing industry, the study undertakes to provide answers to the following questions: How extensively are the various innovations being used and what is the trend of their use for the future? What factors, such as costs and benefits, govern the future trend of adoption? How has employment been affected by these innovations? What changes in occupational requirements are brought about? What are the training needs for the various innovations? What industrial relations problems arise? The bulletin focuses on two of the most important divisions of the industry: newspaper publishing and printing and commercial printing. These two groups utilize most of the technological changes in the industry. A description of three major printing processes and a selected annotated bibliography are provided in the appendixes. (MW)