Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:58 am
The number of aggregate digital images captured per month continued to grow another 18 points in 2005, largely driven through cheaper flash memory card prices and increased capacities, IDC found in a new study of U.S. digital camera owners' usage habits. As a result, the total number of average monthly prints is expected to increase by 29% in 2005. However, printing behavior is changing with home printing continuing to decline in favor of retail locations.
"Variability in printing behavior is obvious," said Chris Chute, senior analyst, Worldwide Digital Imaging Solutions and Services. "While one-third of digital camera owners never print, over 10% print every image they keep. There are therefore distinct clusters of users who can be identified by their printing behavior."
Other key findings from IDC's Consumer Digital Imaging Survey include:
- The mean number of digital images captured per month is 75.
- 14% of total digital camera owner respondents capture more than 100 images per month.
- 15% of total respondents never delete any images, while 6% delete all their images.
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| 1. Posted by azntg |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:44 pm |
Of course, when will the printer companies wake up and learn? Most people are NOT stupid. We know when we clearly get ripped off. There's a price and (sometimes quality) advantage with prints from the store rather than home photo printers.
We'd rather pay ~$4 (@20 cents each, at least for my location) for 20 digital prints.
For printers, the printer itself costs anywhere from $199-infinity. Another $10-infinity for photo papers and another $20-infinity for the color toners. Too expensive. And especially with printers trying to restrict usage to their own brands. Forget about it.
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