Hewlett-Packard Co kept its position last year as the biggest supplier of printers worldwide in unit shipments as the number of printers shipped globally fell, according to a market researcher.
Hewlett-Packard had 39.5 percent of printers excluding ink- jet multifunctional printers worldwide last year, according to technology market researcher Gartner Inc. Hewlett-Packard kept its position as the top supplier by doing well in its main markets such as the US and Europe.
The units of worldwide printers shipped fell 1.6 percent to 74,503,287 last year, according to Gartner. Unit shipments of ink-jet printers worldwide fell 6.6 percent.
"The fall in overall printer market is because single- function ink-jet printers fell, as people are shifting to multifunctional types," said Tomoko Mitani, an analyst at Gartner Japan.
Multifunctional ink-jet printers account for more than 40 percent of ink-jet printers in the US according to Mitani.
"Suppliers need to raise the numbers of models of multi-functional types to make them even more popular," she said.
Japan's Seiko Epson Corp kept its second position in the worldwide printer market with 22.1 percent, and Canon Inc kept third position with 16.2 percent. Lexmark International Inc, based in Lexington, New York, was fourth with 10.4 percent, and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co was fifth with 2.3 percent.
"It is worth special mention that Samsung Electronics ranks in the top five even though it does not sell ink-jet printers," Mitani said.
Single-function ink-jet printers account for 73 percent of all printers. Samsung Electronics ranks second in the worldwide laser printer market after Hewlett-Packard.
Hewlett-Packard kept its position as the top supplier of single-function type ink-jet printers worldwide last year with 39.6 percent, followed by Seiko Epson with 25.3 percent and Canon with 20.1 percent, according to Gartner.
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