Consumer-Printer Sales Outpace Business-Printer Sales
“The shift towards consumer sales has been dramatic and sudden.”
Category: Market Reports & Forecasts
Survey: Office Workers Missing Office Printers and MFPs
Plus, most organizations plan on expanding IT budgets to accommodate remote working.
COVID-19 to Result in Sharp Decline in Global Office and Home Page Volumes
Page volumes for North America and Asia/Pacific (excluding China and Japan) are expected to decline most dramatically,
Quocirca Looks at Post-Crisis Workplace and Role of Printing
MPS contracts should allow for the provision of home printers for those that need them, as well as tracking usage for accounting and security purposes.
Survey: Print Industry Braced for Major Revenue Decline
Frontline healthcare and government sectors continue to show an increase in demand for printing, but demand is just slowly returning in the financial services, retail and media sectors.
‘Severe’ Drop in Hardcopy Peripheral Shipments Due to COVID-19
Worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals (HCP) contracted 7.5 percent year-over-year to 21.1 million units in the first quarter of 2020......
India Printer/MFP Market Suffers Biggest Year-over-Year Decline To Date
The Indian hardcopy peripheral (HCP) printer//MFP/copier market registered shipments of 0.66 million units in the first quarter, for a decline......
Office-Imaging Industry Optimistic about Re-Opening
Respondents in the survey did however express concern about a difficult restarting of the economy.
IT Spending to Decline in U.S., Europe, But Better Outlook for China
There are tentative signs of improvement in the Asia/Pacific region, with confidence levels showing gradual recovery in China and other countries.
IDC Forecasts Slowing Global IT, Business Services Market
The forecast is based on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s projection that 2020 GDP will likely contract by more than 2 percent, with sharp declines in the first and second quarters offset by recovery in the second half of the year.
Sales of Notebooks, Tablets Up 30 Percent in Europe
The current IDC forecast is that the personal computing devices (PPD) sector will not suffer as much from rapid economic contraction as many other sectors, as it is key to productivity for so many home workers.
IT Spending Forecast to Fall 2.7 Percent this Year
“There will be pockets of opportunity for software and related services during the next six months, as organizations create response measures focused around increased remote work and collaboration.”
Canon U.S.A. Ranked #1 in A3 Copier/MFP Market
Canon U.S.A. today announced it’s been ranked the number-one market-share leader in all U.S. A3 laser multifunction printer (“MFP”) segments,......
IDC Forecasts Slowing Worldwide IT Spending in Wake of Coronavirus
Depending on how much the coronavirus affects North America and Western Europe, we may also see increased sales of home printers in these regions as occurred in China.
This Week in Imaging: Did Canon Just Derail Xerox’s HP Acquisition Bid?
This week, the big news didn’t come from either Xerox or HP Inc. – with Xerox, as expected, making a......
Mixed Results for Fourth-Quarter Worldwide Large-Format Printer Market
“Around the world we continue to see solid growth in technologies such as UV-curable and dye-sublimation inkjet printers.”
