Global sales of packaging-related print from digital print-on-demand and wide format presses reached $1.95 billion in 2009 and are expected to climb to $4.05 billion by 2014, according to InfoTrends research. The study reports two major causes for this increase: advances in the productivity, image quality and total ownership cost of digital color printing, and the growing demand among manufacturers of consumer goods for shorter runs of packaging-related print.
See full article at: Print Solutions Magazine: Running in Both Directions | June 2010.