Increasing Adoption of Cloud Storage Main Reason for Declining Thermal and Inkjet Disc Printing Market – Future Market Insights

Disc printing is the process of printing text, data or images on the surface of the optical disc.

Two different approaches for printing CD-R on-demand are – thermal disc printing and inkjet disc printing. A thermal disc printer employs pressure and heat to apply text and graphics to the disc surface. The print surface of thermal printed discs is more durable. Thermal disc printing produces color custom labels that are waterproof, scratchproof and do not require any additional coating.

Inkjet printers utilize a mechanism in which the print head has several tiny nozzles/jets that spray ink onto the disc, as the disc moves past the print he, forming the characters or images. Inkjet disc printers may employ a single cartridge for different colors or several cartridges, with one for each color depending upon different models, and are priced accordingly.

According to a report from Future Market Insights, the total thermal and inkjet disc printers market of U.S., Europe and Japan was valued at $929.6 million in 2015. In terms of value, the disc printers market in the U.S., Europe and Japan is expected to witness a declining CAGR of -3.0%, between 2016 and 2026.

Thermal disc printers offers several advantages such as higher throughput of the therm,ribbons, more durable print surface, and are comparatively faster than other disc printing solutions.

Several benefits offered by inkjet disc printers are high resolution printing and they are comparatively less expensive and lighter in weight. Inkjet printing technology is more accurate and smudge-free on special types of printable media discs (rather than simple discs with smooth surface) having matte surface, which can abso,ink similar to paper and provides high quality image and artwork

Increasing adoption of cloud based storage systems and on-premise systems (HDD drive and SSD) is decreasing the demand for media discs worldwide. As these alternatives are convenient, faster and are available at comparatively lower prices than media discs, they are more popular among end users.

High cost of raw material of recordable optical disc and low profit margins due to wide availability of substitutes are acting as major challenge for players in the recordable optical disc market.

The thermal disc printer sub-segment was valued $418.3 million in 2015 and is anticipated to register a CAGR of -2.5% during the forecast period.

The U.S., Europe and Japan thermal disc printers market was valued at $418.3 million in 2015 and is anticipated to reach a market value of $320.2 million by 2026 end.

Some of the key market players identified across the U.S., Europe and Japan thermal and inkjet disc printers value chain are Rimage and Formats Unlimited (MF Digital) that are operating in both the thermal printing and inkjet disc printing market. TEAC America Inc. and Microboards Technology are specifically operating in the thermal disc printers market while Seiko Epson Corporation and Primera Technologies Inc. are specifically operating in the inkjet disc printers market.