LATEST ON CHINA's MFP MARKET ……….

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http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/ccid-consulting-analyes-prospect-chinas-mfp-market/
CCID Consulting Analyzes Prospect on China’s MFP market
BEIJING,
JUNE 2008 /CCID Consulting, China’s leading research, consulting and IT
outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm
listed in Hong Kong recently released its 2007-2008 Annual Report on
China’s MFP market.The report shows that, the market share of laser
MFPs reaches 48.7% in 2007, up 26% over 2006. CCID Consulting forecasts
that the market share of laser MFPs will reach 53.5% in 2012. CCID
Consulting forecasts MFP market will develop in three trends in the
future:

Laser products’ demands increases, color MFPs become the focus
Users
have high demands for high-speed printing and heavy load printing
functions. Based on its high speed, high quality and durability, laser
MFPs cater for more users and thus become more and more popular. Laser
MFP is the first choice for office equipment in the future. With the
evolution of global business, especially the development of media and
advertising industries, color MFP products become the major development
trend. Besides, laser MFP’s price has a slowdown trend, which accords
with the market trend of laser products replacing that of ink-jet
products, similarly, color laser MFPs will substitute black and white
laser MFPs.

Office integrated solutions receives much concern
MFP
functions are becoming more sophisticated and system applications more
complicated, which makes MFP not only OA equipments, but also solutions
to improve efficiency and reduce cost. While industrial OA matures, MFP
solutions tend to satisfy more urgent office demands. For example,
logistics and finance industry need MFP solutions to provide high load
printing tasks with high printing definition and fast printing speed,
while media and advertising industry need MFP solutions to provide high
quality, colorful, high definition printing results. Cost is the key
issue in OA system construction for enterprises in merging industry and
small enterprises. Hence, the performance price ratio and service life
of MFP products are the key deciding factors for these enterprises. MFP
solution for segment market will be the focus of different kinds of MFP
providers. As MFP providers enhance technologically, providing
optimized solutions will be an important approach to enhance their
competitive capacities.

High efficiency and energy saving products are key areas in market competition
Under
the policy of ‘energy saving and reduction of emission’, more
enterprises tend to focus on high efficiency and energy saving
products. MFP products from HP, Canon, and Konica appear in the list of
energy saving government purchasing products. Consumers can find high
efficiency and energy saving products in both high-end commercial
market and low-end household market. High performance, such as high
speed, low power consumption, and low noise of these products attracts
more consumers, which will be the hotspot in the future MFP market.

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June 4, 2008 at 12:37 PM