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Color Production & Variable Data Printing: Where is the Market Going

is a report that provides an update on trends and developments in the color production printing market. The report also looks at recent results and strategies of color printing systems vendors, the growth of 1:1 communications and color variable data printing, promising new applications, and pivotal issues such as standards and privacy. (August 2005, over 100 pages of text, with tables and charts)



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Media Trends & Market Data

  • Customization & 1:1 Communications
  • Narrowcast media
Chapter 2: Market Update & Trends
  • Color printing systems unit shipments and volume growth
  • Competition heating up at the low end of the market!
  • Digital press vendors' progress report and strategy update
  • HP Indigo and Xerox users speak
Chapter 3: Applications Trends
  • (CVDP) growth in promotional transactional printing
  • Full-color MICR printing: here and now!
  • CVDP developments & opportunities
    • The gambling market
    • The emotional connectional
    • Success stories
Chapter 4: Product/Solutions Developments
  • Printing systems & RIPs
  • Software
  • Pre- and post-processing/finishing
  • Supplies
Chapter 5: Standards
  • AFP Color Management Consortium making progress
Chapter 6: Privacy
  • Privacy: A growing issue for 1:1 Communications and CVDP
Chapter 7: INTERQUEST and Xplor Focused Forums
  • Highlights from the one-to-one communications seminars—targeted at the finance & insurance market—conducted from April through June in North America


INTERQUEST's Expertise in Color Printing and Variable Imaging

Corporate & Graphic Arts Experience: For more than 13 years INTERQUEST, through its relationship with Xplor International and the Graphic Arts Marketing Information Service (GAMIS), has conducted numerous studies and developed educational tools related to the transactional and graphic arts printing markets.

Expertise in Digital Color Printing: Since publishing The Years of Color in 1990, INTERQUEST has developed numerous studies analyzing the office and production color printing markets,

Research in Color Variable Data Printing: Since 1996 INTERQUEST has tracked color variable data printing technology and markets, and published multiple studies on the subject. In 2004, INTERQUEST completed Variable Data Imaging Opportunities with Digital Printing Presses, a study commissioned by GAMIS and the PIA Digital Printing Council. At the end of 2003, INTERQUEST launched its Color Variable Data Advisory Service, which tracks—through quarterly surveys of print providers and print buyers—the evolution of the color production and variable data printing market, applications, and issues.

Color Variable Data Printing Seminars: In the past two years, INTERQUEST has also conducted numerous seminars such as Profiting with Color Variable Data Print and Focused Forums in partnership with Xplor International and several leading industry vendors.