Datacenter, In-Plant, and Service Bureaus: Print Volume Trend Lines

Datacenter, In-Plant, and Service Bureaus: Print Volume Trend Lines published by IDC in December, 2009. This report consists of Pages: 45 and the price starts from US $ 4500.

Introduction

Abstract

This IDC study discusses the end-user survey conducted within the United States during the September–October time frame. It provides an analysis of print volume trends within the datacenter, in-plant, and service bureau print environments. These segments of the printing industry certainly have not escaped the impact of the economic recession. However, the study provides some surprising findings.

"Datacenters, in-plants, and service bureaus reported surprising increases in print volumes. However, when looking more closely, the transactional print volume increases are in large part due to print aggregation and don' t reflect overall print volume increases. Due to offset transfer, the story is clearly different for a range of marcomm and customer correspondence. Nevertheless, print environments will need to substantially evolve as they come out of the recessionary environment." — Riley McNulty, research manager, Production and Large Format Print Markets

Table of Contents

• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
• Methodology
• Situation Overview
• Transactional Print Volume Trend Lines
• Promotional/Marketing, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Trend Lines
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
• Learn More
• Related Research
• Synopsis
• Table: Average Monthly Print Volume by Vertical Industry (% of Respondents)
• Table: Average Monthly Print Volume by Print Environment and Job Type (% of Respondents)
• Table: First-Class Mail Volume by Print Environment and Job Type (% of Respondents)
• Table: Percentage Split of Digital Print Volume by Print Application Category, Print Environment, and Job Type (% of Print Volume)
• Table: Transactional Print Volumes by Vertical Industry: Percentage Increasing Versus Percentage Decreasing (% of Respondents)
• Table: Rating Factors Causing an Increase in Transactional Print Volumes by Print Environment and Job Type (% of Respondents)
• Table: Belief in Recovery of Transactional Print Volume to Prerecession Levels by Print Environment and Job Type (% of Respondents)
• Table: Customer Communication Suppression Rate by Vertical Industry: Percentage of Documents Sent in Electronic Format Only (% of Respondents)
• Table: Types of Documents Affected by Electronic Distribution by Vertical Industry (% of Respondents)
• Table: Promotional/Marketing, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volumes by Vertical Industry: Percentage Increasing Versus Percentage Decreasing (% of Respondents)
• Table: Factors Causing an Increase in Promotional/Marketing, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volumes (% of Respondents)
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Transactional Print Volume Declines: Electronic Statement Adoption
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Transactional Print Volume Declines: Dynamic Enterprise Publishing
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Transactional Print Volume Declines: Weak Economy Led to Less Business
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Transactional Print Volume Declines: Outsourcing
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Transactional Print Volume Declines: Shifting of SYSOUT Volumes to Distributed Environments
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: The Economy
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Electronic Communications
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Dynamic Enterprise Publishing
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Strategy to Reduce Print
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Decline in Direct Mail
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Decline in Customer Onboarding
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Shift to Distributed Environments
• Figure: Rating of Factors Causing Marcomm, Business Documentation, and Customer Correspondence Print Volume Declines: Outsourcing VDP/Integrated Campaigns
• Figure: Belief in Recovery of Print Volumes to Prerecessionary Levels

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