IDC's Latin America Semiannual Production Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker examines how high-speed or production vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the most important Latin American office, light production, midproduction, and production markets, specifically in Mexico, Brazil, and the rest of Latin America. This service reviews the market size, forecast, and market positioning of production printers (>69ppm) for major vendors, including Canon, HP, IBM, Kodak, Kyocera-Mita, Nipson, Océ, Ricoh, Sharp, Toshiba, Xeikon, and Xerox.

This product covers the following segments of the Latin America production hardcopy market:

• Semiannual data with historical information from 2004
• Five-year annual forecast by product class
• Product class - office, light production, midproduction, and production
• Distribution channels - direct, distributor, and value-added reseller
• Cutsheet/continuous feed as well as monochrome and color devices
• More than 12 vendors' shipments in the region's largest printing markets
• End-user segments - home, small office (1-9 employees); small business (10-99 employees); medium-sized business (100-249 employees); medium-sized/large business (250-499 employees); large business (500-999 employees); enterprise (1,000+ employees); government; and education

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

• Product class evolution
• Country market dynamics
• Vendor and market performance
• Vendor unit and value market share

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

1. What is the market opportunity for each printer technology (by product class and cutsheet/continuous feed)?
2. How are the top regional competitors performing in each printer technology?
3. Which end-user segments are providing the greatest demand?
4. What distribution channel strategies have proven most successful?
5. What will be the market opportunity for each technology?

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

IDC's Latin America Semiannual Production Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker examines how production printer vendors are positioning themselves to compete in this market. This product reviews the market size, forecast, and market positioning of the top international vendors, including Canon, HP, IBM, Kodak, Kyocera-Mita, Nipson, Océ, Ricoh, Sharp, Toshiba, and Xerox.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

• Excel analysis tool
• Interactive briefing
• Schedule (week #12): Historical analysis published
• Schedule (week #14): Forecast and forecast analysis published

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

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.