Epson Loses To Lexmark
December 2005
After
growing 16 per cent sequentially in the second quarter this year, IDC’s
latest printer market tracker shows Q3 sales dropped off
seasonally.Describing the market as “quite healthy in Q3 2005”, IDC
says there was only a marginal drop of 2 per cent over the previous
quarter with a 4 per cent growth over the year ago quarter.
The
market shares for both single-function and multi-function devices
showed Epson was bumped out of its third placing as strong shipments in
the single function inkjet printer market helped Lexmark move up.
Brother, meanwhile, continued to occupy the fifth position. No change was observed in the ranking.