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Q27. What type of wide-format equipment do you own? (please select all that apply)
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Solvent printer (inc. eco solvent) Latex printer UV curable flatbed printer Aqueous printer UV curable roll-to-roll printer UV curable hybrid printer Finishing – laminator Finishing – contour cutter Print and cut roll-fed printer Dye-sublimation Finishing – straight line cutter Finishing – specialist textile (eyelet maker etc) Dye-sublimation (non textile) Inkjet 3D object printer
The main motive for investment (almost as popular now as when the 2010 Width- wise survey was conducted) is to increase capacity. Moving into new markets is driv- ing investment for 15.8% of respondents, with output speed a priority for 7.0%.
In 2010, the workhorse of the British wide-format print industry was the solvent printer - more than half of the respondents to that year’s Widthwise survey owned one. Ten years later, it still is: 52.6% of compa- nies in the survey own a solvent printer. The workload is, though, being shared among different types of presses now than it was ten years ago. In 2010, only 2.7% of companies owned a latex printer. Today, more than one in three do. Print and cut roll-fed printers are not nearly as prevalent as they once were: only 5.3% of respond- ents own one, compared to 23.9% in 2010. Aqueous printers and UV curable print- ers (flatbed, roll-to-roll and hybrid) have proved consistently popular over the past decade. In contrast, textile/dye-sublimation printers have remained decidedly niche.
In some ways, the things that have not changed since 2010 are more significant than those that have. Even though the
52.63% 33.33%
28.51% 25%
17.54% 13.16%
10.09% 9.65%
5.26% 4.82% 4.39%
3.07% 1.75%
0.88%
Q29. Do you expect to buy a new digital wide-format printer in the next 2 years?
No Yes Not sure
54.39%
33.77%
UV curable flatbed printer Solvent printer (inc. eco solvent) UV curable roll-to-roll printer UV curable hybrid printer Latex printer Other Dye-sublimation Aqueous printer Print and cut roll-fed printer
22.08% 20.78%
19.48% 18.18%
16.88% 9.09%
7.79% 5.19%
1.30%
11.84%
Q30. If yes, which type of digital wide-format printer do you expect to buy? (please select all that apply)
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