According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals (HCP) Tracker, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market experienced a 5.9% decline in the second quarter of 2015. Total shipments fell to 24.1 million units, while the corresponding shipment value dipped by 3.4% to US$13.2 billion.
Even with the declines, IDC noted that the US and Canada had on-year growth of 3.6% and 5.8% respectively in response to the recovering economy and high-end devices posted very healthy growth, with a double-digit increase in 45ppm+ speed segments.
Epson outperformed all other vendors for the second quarter in a row, with continuous success in the inkjet segment. Most of Epson's growth came from the US and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan). HP enjoyed 4.5% on-year growth in the US while Canon performed well in all the developed regions, with Western Europe delivering 12.2% on-year growth.
Inkjet still makes up the majority of the market with 58.7% share. The color laser segment saw the smallest decrease, even though all segments posted a decline.
The total single function printer market declined 12.6% on year in the second quarter, and total multifunction peripheral (MFP) shipments decreased 2.9%. However, MFPs had a strong performance in all color laser speed ranges, especially in 31-44ppm, growing 12.6% on year.
Color declined 2.9% from a year ago to 20.7% share versus its monochrome counterparts. Meanwhile monochrome laser declined by 12.1% on year. The strongest color speed segment was the 11-20 ppm (32.3% share), where HP did particularly well with its Color LaserJet Pro M277 MFP model family.
The 45-69ppm monochrome laser MFP segment exhibited the strongest on-year growth in the second quarter of 2015 at 17.3%, followed by the 45-69ppm printer segment (3%). The mono laser 45-69ppm segment's strong growth was fueled by the Lexmark MX611 family. In the color market, the 70-90ppm MFP segment did well at 72.9% on-year growth, followed by 31-44ppm at 12.6% and 45-69ppm at 12.1%.
The A3/A4 battle in the mid-speed market segments slowed down in the second quarter. A4 MFP devices lost penetration in the 31-69ppm monochrome segment for the first time in the past five quarters, with a 76.9% share of the total monochrome A3/A4 MFP market in the same speed segment.
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IDC: Inkjet and Laser shipments, 2Q15 (unit) |
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Product |
2Q14 shipments |
2Q14 YoY |
2Q15 shipments |
2Q15 YoY |
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Inkjet |
14,601,871 |
(3.2%) |
14,113,735 |
(3.3%) |
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Laser |
9,830,460 |
0.0% |
8,810,189 |
(10.4%) |
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IDC: Printer and MFP shipments, 2Q15 (unit) |
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Product |
Product |
2Q14 shipments |
2Q14 YoY |
2Q15 shipments |
2Q15 YoY |
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MFP |
Inkjet |
12,617,985 |
(1.8%) |
12,437,279 |
(1.4%) |
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Laser |
5,096,234 |
5.3% |
4,759,704 |
(6.6%) |
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Total |
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17,714,219 |
0.2% |
17,196,983 |
(2.9%) |
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Printer |
Inkjet |
1,983,886 |
(11.7%) |
1,676,456 |
(15.5%) |
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Laser |
4,725,713 |
(5%) |
4,043,736 |
(14.4%) |
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Total |
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6,709,599 |
(7.1%) |
5,720,192 |
(14.7%) |
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IDC: Mono laser MFP 31-69 ppm shipments, 2Q15 (unit) |
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Format |
2Q14 shipments |
2Q14 YoY |
2Q14 shipment share |
2Q15 shipments |
2Q15 YoY |
2Q15 shipment share |
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A3 |
142,104 |
(5%) |
22.3% |
149,318 |
5.1% |
23.1% |
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A4 |
493,953 |
13.8% |
77.7% |
496,940 |
0.6% |
76.9% |
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Total |
636,057 |
9% |
100.0% |
646,258 |
1.6% |
100.0% |
Source: IDC, compiled by Digitimes, August 2015.
