IDC's Hardcopy Peripherals: Production and Large Format Printing service analyzes technology developments, print buyers' evolving needs, and high volume print production trends. The service examines developments within production print customer segments, including corporate in-plants, central reprographic departments (CRDs), data centers, commercial printers, quick printers, service bureaus and direct mailers. The service also examines enterprise customers' perspectives on high volume customer communications, correspondence management programs, and print procurement services. Furthermore, the service analyzes the U.S. and worldwide large format printing market. Large format printing research encompasses aqueous, solvent, and UV segments as well as the monochrome large format printers. This service complements our other hardcopy services, which include Hardcopy Peripherals: Overview, Hardcopy Peripherals: User and Channel Data, and Hardcopy Peripherals: Software and Services.

This service covers the following segments of the U.S. hardcopy peripheral market:

• Production and large format color print market
• Production & large format monochrome print market
• Enterprise and print-for-pay production print customer segments
• LOB/marketing executives managing customer communications

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Color and monochrome print-on-demand (POD) market
• Continuous feed printer market
• Print-for-pay customer segments: Sign printers, commercial printers, quick printers, service bureaus, and direct mailers
• Enterprise customers: LOB, marketing, and operations executives managing customer communications and print procurement

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the growth trends within the different market segments of the production printing market?
2. What are the growth trends within the different market segments of the large format printing market?
3. How do new products and technologies change the competitive landscape?
4. What are the solutions and services customers are looking for to meet business needs and enable success?
5. What are the trends impacting high-volume customer communications and correspondence management?

IDC's Hardcopy Peripherals: Production and Large Format Markets service focuses on the impact of various technologies and services on high-volume document production and communication programs. Examples of large format vendors tracked include:

Agfa, Adobe, Canon, EFI, Epson, Exstream Software, Gandinnovations, Gerber Scientific, GMC, HP, IBM, IKON, KIP, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Matan, Mimaki, Mutoh, Océ, Pitney Bowes, Ricoh, Roland, Screen, StreamServe, and Xerox.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

This study forecasts market trends that impact shipments, installed base, and annual page volumes within in-plants/CRDs, datacenters, walk-up environments, commercial printers, and quick printers.

This study forecasts market trends that impact shipments, installed base, and annual page volumes within in-plants/CRDs, datacenters, walk-up environments, commercial printers, quick printers, and service bureaus.

This study analyzes the current and future market opportunities for large format printers. It analyzes market players, provides a year in review, and forecasts specific trends in the large format market.

This study analyzes the current and future market opportunities for large format printers. The forecast encompasses shipments, installed base, and page volumes for aqueous, solvent, and UV printers.

This study analyzes the current and future market opportunities for continuous feed printers. It forecasts continuous feed engine shipments and includes a forecast of high-speed inkjet continuous feed systems.

IDC end-user research is leveraged to provide insights into LOB, marketing, and operations executives' thinking with regard to implementing new or enhanced customer communication programs. Examples of the types of applications this research examines include the following: transpromotional print, variable data printing, customer correspondence management programs, and the use of color POD overall. Additionally, end-user research delves into the types of services various customer segments are adopting that affect high-volume print and communications.

IDC offers a complete market intelligence solution customized to meet your business requirements. The array of products and services available to you includes:

• The opportunity to have your specific questions answered through personal interaction with industry experts who cover the topics and markets in your service
• Around-the-clock access to our market intelligence on idc.com, IDC's personalized Web experience
• A view of the market's future with 12 months of continuous intelligence about its direction and the reasons behind it, along with actionable advice for taking advantage of existing and emerging opportunities
• Special client discount pricing on purchases of research from other services
• Complimentary admission to IDC's annual Directions conference, where you'll hear our latest forecasts and network with IDC analysts and other industry professionals
• Complimentary invitations to monthly executive telebriefings, interactive forums designed to provide you with insights about research and strategies directly from IDC analysts

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As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.