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A new market report from Smithers, The Future of Digital vs Offset Printing to 2029, examines how competing printing technologies are contesting market shares.
Revenues from sheetfed, heatset and coldset offset litho are projected to reach $310.9 billion globally in 2025, according to the new report.
Although still the most widely used analogue print process, offset litho is facing challenges across many applications, including competition from digital (inkjet and electrophotography) where 2025 sales are projected to be $175.2 billion. The new report – The Future of Digital vs Offset Printing to 2029 – tracks the commercial and technology outlook for both sectors across the next five years. It quantifies current and future market volume and value by print process, end use application, and region. Offset was significantly impacted by the pandemic, with major falls in both volume and value of heatset and coldset litho, especially for newspaper and magazine print.
Sheetfed litho volumes will grow marginally, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.3% pushing volume to 6.9 trillion A4 prints in 2029; value will increase at 1.4% CAGR from $183.3 billion in 2024 to $194.5 billion in 2029. The outlook for digital is more positive. Value will increase at a 4.8% CAGR to reach $209.1 billion in 2029. Volumes will increase faster (5.5% CAGR) from 1.95 trillion A4 prints in 2024 to 2.41 trillion in 2029. Digital is directly displacing litho in several applications. This will be partially compensated for by new demand for sheetfed litho in packaging, but here it is also in competition from gravure and flexo.
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