{"id":275,"date":"2018-04-29T09:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T09:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2018-05-31T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T08:13:34","slug":"projecting-the-growth-of-eco-solvent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/projecting-the-growth-of-eco-solvent\/","title":{"rendered":"Projecting the Growth of Eco-Solvent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its most recent projection of large-format graphics print volume in North America leading up to 2020, Boston-based IDC indicates that it is rather bullish on the future of eco-solvents.<\/p>\n<p>According to IDC\u2019s Tim Greene: \u201dEco-solvent inkjet printers are widely used in the signage and graphics segment, particularly in the outdoor graphics segment. We\u2019ve seen that many eco-solvent printers remain in use for 7-10 years, so even as some PSPs invest in alternative technologies, they often keep their eco-solvent printers to do their banner, vehicle graphic, decals, and other work \u2013 for which eco-solvent is particularly useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[As a result] IDC expects eco-solvent inkjet print volumes to continue to grow, albeit at a modest 1-2% per year, from 2015 through 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne other factor [that comes into play] is that some eco-solvent printers are modified for dye-sub printing, contributing to a slight decline in the eco-solvent installed base and a shift in the production volume. The speed and capabilities \u2013 such as higher image quality \u2013 that today\u2019s eco-solvent inkjet printers are capable of, are expanding, which is enabling consolidation of print volume onto fewer eco-solvent printers and driving higher volumes of large format eco-solvent print through the installed base.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its most recent projection of large-format graphics print volume in North America leading up to 2020, Boston-based IDC indicates that it is rather bullish on the future of eco-solvents. According to IDC\u2019s Tim Greene: \u201dEco-solvent inkjet printers are widely used in the signage and graphics segment, particularly in the outdoor graphics segment. We\u2019ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wer-china.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}