Reports

Sustainability and the future of print

This report analyses how IT decision-makers who are responsible for or involved in decisions around the print infrastructure are graduating from hazy ambitions for environmental protection to more concrete goals for sustainability that impact their own actions and shape their expectations of suppliers. We identify key subgroups with an above-average interest in sustainability and that are likely to lead in adopting better environmental practices. We also reflect on how sustainability may impact printing behaviours over the next few years.

MPS and Home Printing Buying Habits

The shift to hybrid work continues to evolve, creating new challenges for organisations in managing, controlling, and securing printing across office and remote locations. This report is based on Quocirca’s MPS 2022 research, carried out amongst 203 IT decision-maker respondents, all using MPS, across the UK, France, Germany and the US. While managed print services […]

Quocirca Print Industry Trends 2023

Quocirca’s Print Industry Trends 2023 provides details on 10 key trends that will shape the print industry in the coming year.  The report provides insight on each trend, the impact on the print industry and recommendations for suppliers to adapt and build product and service offerings and propositions.

Pages: 16

Industry Innovators

Post-pandemic, the print industry faces ongoing challenges to drive relevance amidst market consolidation, supply chain disruption, declining print volumes and an ever-evolving technology landscape. A more distributed workforce, working from both office and home, demands new ways of managing paper and digital workflows. This report outlines the key areas where industry players can capitalise on […]

Quocirca MPS Brand Perception 2022

Quocirca conducted a survey of senior IT managers with responsibility for decisions relating to managed print services in the UK, France, Germany and the US. The research covered 203 enterprises with 500 or more employees that were already using a managed print service. Organisations with 500 to 999 employees were classed as mid-size organisations, and […]

The Future Office 2025: US Edition

This is the third edition of the Global Print 2025 study, Quocirca’s ongoing assessment of the convergence of print and digital technologies in the workplace. In April 2022, Quocirca conducted a survey of 1,021 office workers and 521 IT decision-makers in SMBs and large enterprises across the US and Europe. This report focuses on the US research findings, which comprise 405 office workers and 207 IT decision-makers.

Mind the gap: Gen Z attitudes to print

The future of work is increasingly in the hands of the youngest members of the workforce, and as Millennials and members of Gen Z graduate into leadership roles, working practices and the philosophy behind them will change. This report looks at how Gen Z and Millennials are reshaping the future of work and how their omnichannel preferences is influencing their attitudes to printing in the workplace.

Scanning as an enabler for digital transformation

Quocirca undertook research across five different regions, three different verticals and a range of organisation sizes in order to ascertain respondents’ thoughts and perceptions around the need for scanning within their organisation, as well as what they were looking for when seeking out new scanning devices.  The research shows that there is a definite gap between user expectations and the realities of the devices chosen – often based on the use of the wrong tool for the job.

Pages: 14

Figures: 8

Quocirca Future of Work, 2025

How print and digital convergence will shape the sustainable hybrid workplace

Research study across the US and Europe, covering 521 IT Decision Makers and 1021 Office Workers

Accelerating Industry Transformation

The print industry continues to be put under a range of stresses: the impact of COVID-19 is still being felt, with the changes in working practices leading to a perception that print volumes are unlikely to return to pre-COVID-19 levels in the foreseeable future. This report looks at print industry executives’ views of the print industry and where it is likely to go in the short to medium term.