Tallon Associates provides
analysis of data on the demand for used assets.

Pre-Press
Equipment

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  • Demand remains steady for
    good-quality, late-model equipment.
  • Very limited demand for older
    equipment.

Offset
Presses

  • Shortage of new machinery has
    increased demand for second-user equipment.
  • UK market continues to reduce
    for older traditional presses however still limited demand from
    developing economies.
  • Slight increase in demand from
    printers looking to update older machines given competitive pricing
    at present making presses more affordable.
  • Lack of funding options proving
    to be a problem for many companies looking to invest. However, the
    options for funding both new and used have improved in
    2011.

Label
Printing

  • Late model presses still
    attracting interest from both UK-based and international
    purchasers. Specialist high-specification presses with options and
    pharmaceutical presses in strong demand.
  • Demand reducing for older
    letterpress machines, with very little interest from UK
    purchasers.

Screen
Printing

  • Market continues to retract as
    wide format and digital machines become more cost
    effective.
  • Equipment becoming unsaleable
    with only very limited demand from developing
    economies.
  • High costs for decommissioning
    and shipping limit overseas.

Digital Printing/Wide
Format

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  • Limited market for older
    equipment due to technological advances.
  • Demand for wide format
    equipment continued to decline over past 12 months due to slowdown
    within the retail sector.

Print
Finishing

  • Demand for equipment starting
    to recover over past 12 months due to a shortage
    of quality equipment in the second user market.
  • Seen recent demand from
    European purchasers.
  • Market for older equipment
    reducing.

Direct
Mail/Envelope

  • A large number of closures
    within the sector over the past 12 months resulting in a surplus of
    equipment on the market with limited demand for the
    same.
  • Larger operators will now only
    invest in modern high-speed machines and consequently demand for
    older machines is reducing.

Packaging &
Converting

  • Decline in the demand for
    flexographic and gravure printing.
  • Demand for carton and
    converting equipment remains static.
  • Global market for equipment and marketing periods of six
    months plus must be anticipated to source purchasers at realistic
    levels as strongest demand is from South America and
    India.

Bar chart showing data by Tallon Associates