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China's Q3 Printer Sales Volume Fell 8%BEIJING, Nov 07, 2008 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- 1.8344 million sets of printers, valued at CNY 2.282 billion, were sold in China in the third quarter of 2008, falling 8% and 11.9% from July-September 2007. Sales volumes of ink-jet printers and laser printers respectively declined 10.8% and 5.8% year on year to 1.1957 million and 408,100 sets while sales volume of stylus printers climbed 3.3% to over 200,000 sets. Amid withering demand from financial, government, and education industries, sales volume of color laser printers dropped 14.5% in Q3 in the Chinese market, the first decline since 2001. High prices and maintenance costs are major factors to limit the development of color laser printers. Contrarily, A3-sized printers kept a stable growth trend in the period. Driven by decreasing prices, sales volume rose 5.6% from a year ago. Media, education, and publishing industries still were major buyers. Meanwhile, financial, telecom, transportation, as well as government industries started to show increasing demand for the printers. From www.shihua.com.cn, Page 1, Thursday, November 06, 2008 [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |