Developing market registers a 7.3 percent page growth compared to 2009 figures, although page volume in developed regions declined by 1.3 
percent.
Research from International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that three billion pages were printed in the EMEA every day, with Ilona Stankeova, Research Director, Imaging & Hardcopy Devices Research and Document Solutions, IDC CEMA, commenting that “if we lay down the pages printed daily in EMEA one after another, they would reach the moon and back, or cover an area of 18 soccer pitches every minute.”
The region mirrored worldwide trends, with developing markets increasing page volume by 7.3 percent compared to 2009 while developed regions decreased 1.3 percent over the same period. Within the region, page volume in Western Europe declined one percent, while Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA) volume grew by over 14 percent.
MFPs led page share, with IDC speculating users are adopting MFPs for “convenience and functionality”. MFPs also remain the dominant force for inkjets in terms of both age volume and installed base.
Other figures include mono laser devices representing almost 84 percent of laser installed base and generated almost 773 billion pages for the period in EMEA, although Western Europe registered a decline in page volume and installed base as users migrated towards colour devices; and although inkjet devices comprised more than half of all hardcopy devices in EMEA, they only accounted for 8 percent of overall page volume printed on these devices.