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The wide-format market is diverse in terms of users, output, and revenue opportunities for vendors. Wide-Format Printers, Ink, and Media: Market Forecast and Overview provides a thorough analysis of the wide-format market, segmented into the following categories: CAD; graphics; and solvent.
Each category includes different hardware, ink, and media technologies and is characterized by different users, revenue models, and revenue opportunities for vendors. This report provides an in-depth analysis of market trends within each of the three categories and includes detailed hardware, ink, and media forecasts through 2006 for the United States, the Pacific Rim, Western Europe, Latin America, and the rest-of-the-world region. The report concludes with a chapter comparing revenue and shipments for hardware, ink, and media across the various market segments.
Within the graphics segment, media has been the biggest source of revenue and will continue to be number one throughout the forecast period (see chart). However, ink has been catching up, and Lyra expects ink's revenue share to climb to 39 percent of total consumables in 2002. In 2003, sales of ink for graphics printers will, for the first time, surpass hardware revenue.
Wide-Format Printers, Ink, and Media: Market Forecast and Overview incorporates the results of a primary research study of 300 print-for-pay photo labs, sign shops, and service bureaus and compares their applications, printer and media brand preferences, substrates used, and tendencies to use third-party inks. Combining the primary research and forecast information provides vendors with a clear picture of the current state of the market and a vision of what changes can be expected in the future. |
