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DUE TO M.P.S. , COMSUMABLE SALES TO DROP WORLDWIDE
According
to a recently completed study by InfoTrends, Managed Print Services
(MPS) in the office environment will reduce the consumption of marking
and paper supplies in the United States by $2.6 billion in 2014. A
companion study shows a similar drop in consumption of supplies for
Western Europe with a reduction totaling €1.56 billion in 2014.“It
is a well known fact that managed print services are gaining share of
the US and Western European office environments,” commented John Shane,
Project Manager and Director at InfoTrends. “Our most recent forecasts
show MPS will control 28% of the US office environment print volume and
22% of the Western European office environment by 2014. However, there
wasn’t a clear understanding of how MPS would impact the market for
supplies – until now.”InfoTrends study entitled Managed Print
Services: Impact on the Supplies Market, takes an in-depth look at the
impact of MPS on the supplies market. It addresses the following key
objectives:* Measure the overall impact on print volume,
paper use, and associated supplies consumption, including the increased
duplex printing and the double impact on paper
* Understand and forecast any shift to non-OEM consumables and that impact on overall aftermarket and OEM share
* Identify the disruption of current distribution channel dynamics
* Identify how and why supplies decisions are made under an MPS engagement
* Understand the impact on toner, ink, cartridges and paper“When
compared with a baseline forecast that postulates if MPS was never
invented, we see that MPS will reduce the consumption of marking
supplies by 10% (6% in Western Europe) and paper by 7% (5% in Western
Europe) by 2014,” continued Shane. “It is imperative that those in the
supplies industry educate themselves on how to deal with the effects of
MPS to take advantage of new opportunities and mitigate risk.”In
conducting this study, InfoTrends deployed Web-based questionnaires to
300-user organization who have adopted MPS and 150 MPS providers. In
addition, in-depth interviews were conducted with respondents from the
user and provider surveys to color the answers and probe on more
intricate issues. The regions covered were the United States and Western
Europe. The reports can be purchased individually or as a package.
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