Continues to run over smaller players, even in increasingly competitive market for smaller, cheaper printers.
Four
times a year, Gartner and a host of other technology research firms
issue updated surveys on the printing business—looking at total units
shipped and breaking out market-share.
Because of HP's longstanding dominance in printing, these surveys
can often read like a report on how far the number two and number three
players are behind HP.
In its most current survey, for instance, Gartner shows that HP held
the leading market-share in page printers, inkjet printers and inkjet
MFPs (multifunction printers), the all-in-one machines that combine
printing, copying, faxing and scanning functions, and are currently one
of the growth engines of the printing business.
So great is HP's lead in the inkjet MFP market, for example, that as
of the third quarter of 2007 (the latest period for which data is
available), it held a 51 percent share of the market, while its nearest
competitor, Lexmark, had just a 20 percent market-share. The number
three player, Canon, had just 9 percent of the market.
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