State of the Industry: Labels, Digital Printing Making Significant Inroads
Currently, electrophotography (EP), or toner-based printing, dominates the digital label market with 83 percent of global digital label volume in 2012, and is growing at 22 percent per year (see Table 2 in the photo tab to the right). While EP leads digital label print, inkjet is growing even faster, at 57 percent per year.
Jack Miller is founder and Principal Consultant at Market-Intell LLC, offering Need to Know™ market intelligence in paper, print and packaging. Previously, he was senior consultant, North America, with Pira International.
Known as the Paper Guru, Jack is the former director of Market Intelligence with Domtar, where he also held positions as regional sales manager, territory sales manager and product manager. He has presented at On Demand, RISI’s Global Outlook, PRIMIR, SustainCom World and at various IntertechPira conferences. Jack has written for Printing Impressions, Canadian Printer, Paper 360, PaperTree Letter and Package Printing, along with publishing a monthly e-newsletter, MarketIntellibits.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The College of the Holy Cross and has done graduate studies in Statistics and Finance.
