Digital Print Profits Increased with Digital Printing- Wait Until They Try Synthetic Paper

A report from Canon concludes that 58% of digital print providers increased their profit/revenue in 2009, as opposed to just over 31% of non-digital providers. The study, based on a survey of 840 printers across the world was conducted by ProPrint columnist Frank Romano. It also conlcudes that 26% of printers who did well during the downturn had invested in both digital and offset lithographic.

A report by PODI found that digital volumes increased slightly in the Australian market last year, largely driven by a 55% boost in color volumes. The PODI study found that Australian production digital printers produced 13.8 billion A4-equivalent prints in 2009, a marginal increase of 1% from 13.6 billion in 2008. Monochrome volumes declined 9% to 10.4 billion pages in 2009, but the total result was propped up by a 55% increase in color volumes to 3.4 billion pages.

As a result of this trend, the proportion of color pages increased from 16% to 25% of all digital pages. Because of the higher value of color prints, the report estimates that the revenue from production digital printing increased 20%. The PODI study was based on data from digital vendors such as Canon, Fuji Xerox, HP, Konica Minolta, Océ and Ricoh.