DIGITAL digest March 2005

More than 50 percent of the 2003 pages were estimated to have been printed in color. By 2008, that percentage is forecast to be 62 percent (372 billion pages out of a total of 596 billion), a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent, I.T. Strategies says.

EP printers—including desktop color lasers, color copiers and digital presses—reportedly accounted for 81 percent of the 2003 page volume. The research firm expects the ratio of EP to ink-jet pages to be the same in 2008. (www.it-strategies.com)