The digital printing market will grow from $131.5 billion in 2013 to $187.7
billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of 7.4%, according to the latest
research from Smithers Pira.
Digital's share of the total print market will grow from 9.8% in 2008 to 20.6% in 2018, with inkjet growing faster than electrophotography. All the offset processes will see their value shares fall, particularly in web offset.
A new study from Smithers Pira - The
Future of Offset vs Digital Printing to 2018 - shows how the issue of
direct competition between digital and offset printing is a daily occurrence
for print service suppliers, in determining which process they should use for a
particular job.
Digital's share of the total print market will grow from 9.8% in 2008 to 20.6% in 2018, with inkjet growing faster than electrophotography. All the offset processes will see their value shares fall, particularly in web offset.
