The functional printing market report is a comprehensive research study on the printing technologies and functional inks used for printing electronics. The report covers the entire market with a special focus on the various technologies involved, namely, inkjet, flexo, gravure, screen, and others. The report also showcases market statistics and insights for the major applications. The applications covered in the report are displays, lighting, sensors, photovoltaics, batteries, and RFID.
Over the last decade, the display and lighting markets have realized the potentials of OLED technology and have been witnessing significant developments with regards to this technology. The major restraint compelling the technology from entering the mass markets like smartphones and tablets is its high rate of production. Barring LG and Samsung, in 2012, even the television market did not see many product launches. Moreover, the OLED TVs launched by these companies have been priced to the north of $8000. This trend is expected to soon change with the advent of functional printing. A number of companies have already adopted it for the production of OLED panels. The advantages like lower costs, increased efficiency, durability, higher resolution, and lower material consumption offered by functional printing technologies will, only, see the market, growing in the coming years.
The report contains a detailed comparative study of the major technologies involved in functional printing. The market statistics for these technologies with respect to the major applications and geographies have also been presented. A holistic study of the supporting value chain segments of the market, like the materials (inks and substrates), has been conducted in perspective of the market. The market statistics for the end products; that is the applications like displays, lighting, sensors, photo-voltaics, batteries, and RFID- have been given in the report. All these statistics shown are aimed at providing the revenue stream of the functional printing whilst identifying the major revenue pockets.
