By Andrea Orr
Four times a year, Gartner and a host of other technology research firms issue updated surveys on the printing business—looking at total units shipped and breaking out market-share.
Because of HP's longstanding dominance in printing, these surveys can often read like a report on how far the number two and number three players are behind HP.
In its most current survey, for instance, Gartner shows that HP held the leading market-share in page printers, inkjet printers and inkjet MFPs (multifunction printers), the all-in-one machines that combine printing, copying, faxing and scanning functions, and are currently one of the growth engines of the printing business.
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