Cut-Sheet Inkjet Market Review and Forecast 2025

Sales of cut-sheet inkjet presses grew marginally in 2024, but much of the slow growth may be attributable to product transitions.   The year-end for 2025 doesn’t appear much better.   One key vendor appears to be exiting the production cut-sheet inkjet market, and sales growth was likely stalled by announcements of new products at DRUPA 2024.  This illustrates the risk for manufacturers of pre-announcing products before they are ready, especially if they have existing products in a particular segment.  

Figure 1    Cut-Sheet Production Inkjet System Sales 2020-2030, WW

Source: IT Strategies, Inc.

The delays in getting newly DRUPA 2024 announced products, plus 2025 economic/geo-political uncertainty, will likely mean another challenging year in terms of new unit sales in 2025.   This delay in growth in 2024 and 2025 will push out the revenue projections for cut-sheet inkjet presses to generate more than $2 billion annual revenue beyond 2030.

While the growth in 2024 didn’t reflect a typical big DRUPA year lift, the benefit of a growing installed base and accompanied page volume increases will continue to drive manufacturer revenues.  IT Strategies projects that in the next five years sales will increase from about $720M in 2024 to over $1,800M worldwide by 2029.   There are not many commercial print markets that show these kinds of 18% growth rates.  Even better, if you combine the continuous feed and cut-sheet production inkjet total manufacturer revenue projections, we are looking at over a $4 billion production inkjet industry by 2030.