Report Features:
- Global print equipment sales are expected to decline (-0.5% CAGR) to just over $16 billion in 2028
- Africa will see the biggest growth (+7.8% CAGR), reaching over $504 million by 2028
- Globally, heatset lithography will see the largest decline from 2023 to 2028 (-12.5% CAGR).
This report covers new printing machinery and associated equipment for commercial, packaging and production printing processes.
The report explores analogue printing as well as digital print processes and focuses on print-for-profit (including in-plant printing operations). It examines the market for pre-press and post-press finishing equipment that is used as part of the overall print process.
The focus of this report is on the print equipment used for commercial, packaging and production printing by print service providers (PSPs) and by packaging converters. The report also discusses the growing importance of service, support, software and consumables to the business and profitability of print equipment suppliers.
Our exclusive content
- By 2028, sales of digital equipment are expected to grow (+1.4%) but conventional equipment is to decline (-1.4%)
- This report includes in-depth analysis of the 20 largest equipment markets, with market outlook to 2028
- The US will remain the largest national print equipment market and is forecast to reach $3.4 billion by 2028
- Sales of flexography print equipment are expected to grow to 2028 (+1.7% CAGR)
What will you discover?
- A consolidated view of the volume and value of the global market for print equipment
- The key drivers and developments, and their combined effect on key print segments and geographic markets
- Trends that impact regional markets, and how these differ from other regions
- Accurate historical data and forecasts by regional market and by print process for the period 2018 to 2028.
The Smithers Methodology
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of targeted interviews with material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets. This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
Who should buy this report?
- Raw material and consumables suppliers
- Printing machinery and equipment suppliers
- Printers
- Consultants and analysts
About the author
Jon Harper Smith has over 15 years' experience in the printing industry through his time working with Fujifilm and has extensive experience of industrial and package printing businesses with particular focus on industrial inkjet and flexo processes. He has a proven ability to develop complex cross border businesses involving the provision of highly technical products that meet strict end user specifications.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction & methodology
- Introduction
- Report objective
- Scope & definitions
- Print service provider (PSP)
- Packaging converter
- Print processes
- Analogue processes
- Digital printing
- Other in-line equipment
- Prepress & postpress equipment
- Prepress equipment
- Postpress equipment
- Geographic markets
- Methodology
- Exchange rates
- Glossary of terms
Market overview - printing equipment markets, 2018-28
- Introduction
- Market overview
- The transition from analogue to digital
- Recent market trends
- The market prior to Covid-19
- Sustainability as a driver for change
- The Covid-19 effect
- The drupa effect
- The accelerating effect of Covid-19
- Changes to supply chains
- Summary
Sheetfed offset lithographic printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Sheetfed press formats
- Major manufacturers
- Curing system developments
- Key technological and market developments
Web offset lithographic printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Heatset web offset
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
- Coldset web offset
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Flexographic equipment markets
- Introduction
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Gravure printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Screen printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Prepress and postpress equipment markets
- Introduction
- Prepress equipment
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
- Postpress equipment
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Electrophotographic printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Inkjet printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Key end-use applications
- Sales trends and forecasts to 2023
- Inkjet press formats
- High-speed fixed-head presses
- Narrow web presses
- Wide-format and flatbed
- Imprinters and bespoke applications
- Sheetfed inkjet presses
- Installed base
- Major manufacturers
- Key technological and market developments
Geographic printing equipment markets
- Introduction
- Western Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- UK
- Other Western Europe
- North America
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Other Asia
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Other Latin America
- Eastern Europe
- Poland
- Russia
- Other Eastern Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
- Australasia
Company intelligence profiles
- Introduction
- Bobst
- Cerruti
- Comexi
- Duplo Corporation
- Durst
- EFI
- Fujifilm
- Heidelberg
- HP
- Koenig & Bauer
- Komori
- Landa
- Manroland Goss web systems
- Manroland Sheetfed
- Mark Andy
- Müller Martini
- Ricoh
- Ryobi
- Xeikon
- Xerox
Tables
- Leading international printing equipment manufacturers
- Global printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Largest 20 national printing equipment markets in 2018, 2022 & 2028 ($ million)
- Global installations of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28
- Global installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
- Global analogue and digital printing press sales, 2018-28 ($ billion)
- Trends in analogue and digital printing press sales in mature and emerging markets, 2018-28 ($ billion)
- Sheetfed offset litho printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- New sheetfed offset litho press unit sales by geographic market, 2018-28
- Installed base of sheetfed offset litho presses by region and press format, 2018-28
- B-series sheet sizes
- New sales of sheetfed offset litho presses by press format and by region, 2018-28
- Heatset web offset printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base of commercial heatset web offset presses by geographic market, 2018-28
- Coldset web offset printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base of commercial coldset web offset presses, 2018-28
- Flexographic printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- New flexo press unit sales by geographic market, 2018-28
- New sales of flexo presses by press format and by region, 2018-28
- Installed base of flexo presses by press format and by region, 2018-28
- Gravure printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- New gravure press unit sales by geographic market, 2018-28
- Installed base of gravure presses by geographic market, 2018-28
- Screen printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- New screen press unit sales by geographic market, 2018-28
- Installed base of screen presses by geographic market, 2018-28
- Prepress printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Postpress printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Electrophotographic printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- New sales of colour electrophotographic presses by rated press speed and region, 2018-28
- Global installed base of colour electrophotographic presses by rated press speed, 2018-28
- Installed base of colour electrophotography presses by rated press speed and by region, 2018-28
- Inkjet printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Global inkjet press unit sales by type, 2018-28
- New inkjet press unit sales by type and by region, 2018-28
- Installed base of inkjet presses by type and by region, 2018-28
- Printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Leading national printing equipment markets ranked by size in 2016, 2020 and 2026 ($ million)
- Western European printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Western European printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Western European sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Western European installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
For each country:
- Printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base and sales of new analogue printing equipment, 2018-28
List of countries:
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- UK
- Other Western Europe
- North American printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- North American printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- North American sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- North American installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
For each country:
- Printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base and sales of new analogue printing equipment, 2018-28
List of countries:
- Canada
- US
- Asian printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Asian printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Asian sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Asian installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28 For each country:
- Printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base and sales of new analogue printing equipment, 2018-28
Figures
- Global evolution in overall unit sales of print equipment, 2018-28
- Global printing equipment sales by machinery type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Analogue vs. digital sales, 2018-23 ($ million)
- Installed base for printing equipment by type, 2022-28
- Global printing equipment market by region, 2023
- Global printing equipment unit sales by region, 2023
- Global printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Global evolution in overall unit sales of print equipment, 2018-28
- Global printing equipment sales by machinery type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Analogue vs. digital sales, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base for printing equipment by type, 2022-28
- Global printing equipment market by region, 2023 (% share by value)
- Global printing equipment unit sales by region, 2023
- Global printing equipment sales by geographic market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Evolution of sales of sheetfed offset litho presses by region, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Evolution of unit sales of sheetfed offset litho presses by region, 2018-28
- Distribution of sheetfed offset litho presses by format, 2020 (% share by volume)
- Installed base of colour electrophotographic colour presses by rated press speed, 2018-28
- Trends in printing equipment sales by region, 2018-28 ($ million)
List of countries:
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Other Asia
- Latin American printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Latin American printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Latin American sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Latin American installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
For each country:
- Printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base and sales of new analogue printing equipment, 2018-28
List of countries:
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Other Latin America
- Eastern European printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Eastern European printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Eastern European sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Eastern European installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28 For each country:
- Printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Installed base and sales of new analogue printing equipment, 2018-28
List of countries:
- Poland
- Russia
- Other Eastern Europe
- Middle Eastern printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Middle Eastern printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Middle Eastern sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Middle Eastern installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
- African printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- African printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- African sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- African installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
- Australasian printing equipment sales by national market, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Australasian printing equipment sales by type, 2018-28 ($ million)
- Australasian sales of new printing equipment by type, 2018-28 (units)
- Australasian installed base of printing equipment by type, 2018-28
- Bobst: financial summary, (CHF million)
- EFI: financial summary, ($ thousand)
- EFI: sales by operating segment, ($ thousand)
- Fujifilm Holdings: financial summary, (¥ billion)
- Heidelberg: financial summary, (€ million)
- HP Inc.: financial summary, ($ million)
- HP Inc.: printing sales by segment, ($ million)
- Koenig & Bauer: financial summary, (€ million)
- Koenig & Bauer: sales by region, (% share by value)
- Komori: financial summary, (¥ million)
- Possehl: financial summary, (€ million)
- Manroland Sheetfed: financial summary, (€ million)
- Ricoh: financial summary, (¥ million)
- Ryobi: financial summary, (¥ million)
- Xerox Holdings Corporation: financial summary, ($ million)