Commercial Printing Outlook — Tepid Vote of Confidence

The organization had earlier published a study titled “Benchmarking Non-Print Revenues of (U.S.) Printing Companies.” It projects such services—photography, design, database services, mailing, fulfillment, etc.—to grow from 8 percent of total industry revenues in 2005 to 13 percent by 2010.

Market analysts from Info­Trends shared the research firm’s outlook for digital printing in presentations at Graph Expo. According to Jim Hamilton, the retail value of color digital printing in the U.S. is projected to increase at a 14 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2011. Wide-format ink-jet printing will grow at a 4 percent CAGR to total $11.9 billion in 2011, reported Tim Greene.