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It expects the installed base of UV roll-to-roll printers to grow from 199 printers in 2006 to 1,300 by 2011, a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent.

“UV roll-to-roll ink-jet printers could negatively impact the solvent market over the next five years, as users move some output from solvent printers to UV printers,” says Liz Ziepniewski Logue, senior consultant. “The biggest impact perhaps will be felt in the screen printing market.”