Key facts:
- In 2025 the global printing market is worth $868 billion
- The market is forecast to increase by 2.2% CAGR to 2030, with total market value reaching $969.7 billion.
Inkjet is forecast to increase at the highest rate in value terms. There is continuing growth in packaging and labels, sectors largely immune to electronic alternatives. This print and printed packaging output supports major supply sectors for papers, boards and substrates, inks and coatings, printing plates and new printing/finishing equipment.
This flagship Smithers report combines the latest statistics and expert insight from its global research network to track current and future demand in all print segments. This is quantified in a highly detailed data set covering the key supply side markets of inks, new machinery, printing plates and print substrates. Based on extensive primary research, it segments the market by print process and end-use product; and includes market profiles for 50 national print markets.
Key Questions
- What are the key dynamics shaping the evolution of the print industry across the next five years?
- How can businesses harness new commercial opportunities in an era of falling print runs and accelerating technical change?
- What technology advancements are improving print quality over the next five years?
This report is essential to:
- Raw materials suppliers including inks and consumables
- Equipment and machinery suppliers
- Print providers and packaging converters
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Introduction
- Scope & definitions
- Geographic coverage
- Exchange rates
The top line
- Introduction
- Publishing, graphics and labels & packaging
- Regional print markets
- Printing process developments
- Mega trends shaping print demand and production
- The residual impacts of COVID19
- Sustainability
- Digitisation
- Consumer Preferences
- Increasingly connected world
- Demographics
- Print industry labour
- Advertising changes
- Retail changes
- Supply chain changes
- Changing print company activities, business models and routes to market
- New print equipment markets
- Printing inks
- Printing plates
- Printing substrates
End-use sector markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- All graphical print
- Publication print
- Books
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Graphics printing
- Catalogues
- Directories
- Advertising print
- Commercial print
- Photobooks and photoproducts
- Transactional printing
- Security printing
- Labels and packaging
Printing process markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- All analogue print
- Sheetfed lithography
- Heatset web offset
- Coldset web offset litho
- Gravure
- Flexography
- Screen
- Letterpress
- Other print processes
- Digital printing
- Electrophotography
- Inkjet
Printing machinery and equipment markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- Analogue printing, prepress and finishing machinery
- Sheetfed litho
- Heatset web offset
- Coldset web offset
- Gravure
- Flexo
- Screen
- Prepress
- Postpress
- Digital print equipment
- Electrophotography
- Inkjet
Printing ink markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- Analogue inks
- Sheetfed litho
- Heatset web offset
- Coldset web offset
- Gravure
- Flexography
- Screen
- Letterpress
- Other inks
- Digital inks and toners
- Electrophotographic toners
- Inkjet inks
Printing plate markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- Aluminium litho plates
- Litho paper and polyester plates
- Flexo plates
Printing substrate markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- Newsprint
- Uncoated mechanical
- Coated mechanical
- Uncoated woodfree
- Coated woodfree
- Other paper grades
- All paper
- Packaging board
- Film
- Foil
- Other substrates
Geographic printing markets and forecasts
- Introduction
- Western Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- UK
- Other Western Europe countries
- North America
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- South Korea
- Other Asian countries
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Other Latin American countries
- Eastern Europe
- Czech Republic (Czechia)
- Poland
- Russia
- Other Eastern European countries
- Middle East
- Turkey
- Other Middle Eastern countries
- Africa
- Australasia