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North American Transactional Printing: Market Analysis & Forecast (2007-2012)

Based on in-depth surveys of leading transactional printing operations, the study updates and expands studies published by INTERQUEST in 2004 and 2006 on the same topic. (June 2008, 230 pages of text with 115 tables and charts.)

Introduction
Executive Overview

• Key trends
  
• Market Size & forecast
  
• Drivers & issues
  - Monochrome
  - Highlight color
  - Promotional transactional
  - Ink Jet & electrophotography
  - Electronic displacement of transactional printing
  - Color management
  - Pricing & cost of operation
  - MICR printing
  - Postal issues
  - Outsourcing & in-house
  - Printing systems developments
  - Software developments
  - Paper handling & finishing
  
• Printing Systems vendors developments & assessment
  - InfoPrint Solutions
  - Kodak
  - Nipson
  - Océ
  - Xerox
  - Others
  
  * Agfa
  * Hewlett-Packard
  * Punch Graphix/Xeikon
  * Riso
  * Others

• Company profiles
  
• Equipment (broken down by monochrome, highlight color, full color, electrophotography & ink jet)
  - Installed base
  - Vendors’ market share
  - Level of satisfaction
  - Requested improvements
  - Acquisition plans
  
• Applications & Environments
  - Types of documents produced
  - Growth sectors
  - Data streams
  - Vertical markets
  
• Print volume size & projected growth
  - Ink jet & electrophotography
  - Cut-sheet & continuous-feed
  - Simplex & duplex
  - N-up
  - Monochrome, highlight & full color
  
• Finishing
  - In-line & off-line
  - Insertion methods
  - Inserters installed base
  - Verification/integrity
  
• Color variable data printing & transactional promotional
  - Involvement/background
  
  * Reasons for offering/not offering
  * Length of involvement
  * Aggressiveness in pursuing the application
  * Ancillary services
  * Future plans
  
  - Print volume
  
  * Ink jet & electrophotography
  * Transactional promotional & other CVDP
  * Offset shells usage
  * Projected growth
  
  - Clients & applications
  
  * Vertical markets
  * Type of applications/documents
  * Level of personalization
  * Size of typical customer
  * Sales cycle
  
  - Pricing & ROI
  
  * Cost components breakdown
  * Pricing
  * Profitability
  * ROI
  
  - Success with the application
  - Major changes in business over past 12 months
  
  
  
  

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  PART 3 – Leading Transactional Printing Service Bureaus in North America

  (Profile of top 30 organizations)

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  Conclusions