Now
in its fifth full-year since its introduction, the continuous-feed inkjet
printer market shows no signs of maturity. There are few other markets in
either the printer segment or consumer electronic segments that continue to
show growth after five years. This doesn’t mean that the path forward is lined
with rose petals; the challenge of where to continue to find enough pages to
fill these highly productive printers is not an easy challenge.
Transaction
printing remains the largest application of all pages printed on these devices.
While actual pages will double through the forecast period, I.T. Strategies is
projecting that by 2017, nearly all toner-based mono continuous-feed pages
remaining will have been replaced by continuous-feed inkjet printers. This
means that future page volume growth will become more dependent upon a
combination of both offset page replacement and new application page volumes.
