Abstract
This IDC Presentation is an excerpt from one delivered to an IDC client in
January 2007. This excerpt focuses on the global office color laser market
opportunity, defined as <45ppm color laser printers and MFPs. Regions are
compared/contrasted in an effort to identify the most attractive ones, the
lessons about pricing and SMBs as market drivers, why MFP shipments are falling
short of demand, and IDC' s early thinking on whether laser' s increasing share
of hardcopy shipments at the expense of inkjet' s will be stemmed by future
introductions of page-wide array inkjets and other high-speed ink-based
technologies.