The report analysed unit shipment and installed base figures for colour and monochrome printers in Australia in 2008, with overall shipments down to 1585 machines, a drop of 10 per cent compared to 2007. The decline was greatest with colour printers, which recorded an 8 per cent drop.

PODi also found the total estimated installed base in Australia exceeded 7,500 production devices – 55 per cent of which were colour.

The study analysed data from major industry vendors such as Canon, Fuji Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Konica Minolta, Océ and Ricoh.

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