Everything You Need to Know About the Laser Monochrome-Printing Market
Summary: The monochrome laser market has been the bedrock of the office printing market for more than two decades, but as we enter the post-recession era, there will be many challenges for monochrome laser vendors. Print usage and hardware acquisition practices are changing as a result of increased interest in the cost of printing, concern for the environment, and greater use of managed document services to control print costs.
Sometimes Doc forgets that the majority of office printing is still monochrome, despite great inroads with color technology. So what has the market been like the last few years for monochrome laser printers? No better way to find out than to ask our buddies at Lyra Research, the purveyors of all things laser-printer related.
Lyra has released four new reports that provide worldwide forecast data and analysis for the monochrome laser market. The monochrome laser reports are based on key findings from Lyra’s Hard Copy Industry Advisory Service (IAS) second-half 2009 Forecast 360. There are four separate reports.
The first, Monochrome Single-Function Laser Printers: Worldwide Forecast, 2006–2013 explores how the global economic slowdown caused a severe decline in shipments and revenue for the monochrome single-function laser printer market in 2009.
The second report, Low-End Monochrome Laser MFP Market Worse Than Expected in 2009: Worldwide Forecast, 2006–2013 examines how low-end monochrome MFP shipments began to decline throughout the world during the last quarter of 2008 and how a large correction to the low-end of the monochrome MFP market occurred in 2009.
The third in the series, Midrange Monochrome Laser MFP Market Flattens Out: Worldwide Forecast, 2006–2013 discusses how the midrange monochrome MFP market had been growing slowly in 2008 in terms of unit shipments. This growth was fueled by strong increases in shipments of A4-size MFPs, counterbalanced by declining shipments in A3-size MFPs.
And finally, High-End Monochrome Laser MFP Market Still in a Slump: Worldwide Forecast, 2006–2013 discusses why the recession impacted the high-end segment of the monochrome MFP market earlier than it affected other monochrome MFP segments.
“The monochrome laser market has been the bedrock of the office printing market for more than two decades, but as we enter the post-recession era, there will be many challenges for monochrome laser vendors. Print usage and hardware acquisition practices are changing as a result of increased interest in the cost of printing, concern for the environment, and greater use of managed document services to control print costs,” commented Larry Jamieson, director for Lyra’s Hard Copy Industry Advisory Service.
For the full reports you’ll need to shell out $950 each, which Doc figures is a bargain if you need such data.
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