Printer Shipments Down in First Quarter, But Revenue Picks Up for Business Segment
Decline said to be driven in part by lower demand versus a year ago, especially in the consumer market which is reaching saturation.
Canon / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 14, 2022
Decline said to be driven in part by lower demand versus a year ago, especially in the consumer market which is reaching saturation.
The 5G smartphone ramp-up and a combination of strong demand and logistics/raw material price increases drove semiconductor average selling prices higher, contributing to significant revenue growth in 2021.
First-quarter 2022 shpments marks the seventh consecutive quarter where global shipments surpassed 80 million, a feat not seen since 2012.
Inflation, geopolitical disruption, and employee shortages will not slow IT investments.
Workers appear to prefer a mix of in-office and remote work.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure…
Despite supply-chain and inventory problems, shipments of large-format, garment, label printers, etc., see year-over growth.
Brother / Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Pantum
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 14, 2022
Manufacturing constraints and logistical issues continued to dampen growth for most brands through the end of the year.
Market-research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reported today that its studies clearly demonstrate that hybrid work models will be an integral part of future business practices…
Sales revenue for business printers across Europe remained significantly higher than sales revenue for consumer printers in January 2022…
With hybrid work, extending managed print services (MPS) to the home environment will ensure that organizations can manage and secure a hybrid and agile print infrastructure.
The only segment that did see growth was the A4 business inkjet market which increased by 8.4 percent.
According to market-research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), the general trend for semiconductors in 2021 was shortages in mature-process technology......
Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 25, 2022
Gartner forecasts that the IT services segment is expected to have the second-highest spending growth in 2022
With the COVID-19 pandemic and more employees working offsite, the use of cloud technology to enable employees to access data and documents outside of the office continues to increase.
Canon / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Security
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 11, 2022
Among the findings are that enterprises are more confident in their print-infrastructure’s security when they use managed print services, but printers used at home continue to be a security risk.
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