Europe, Middle East & Africa Portable Printer Market by Technology (Inkjet, Thermal, and Impact) and Industry Vertical (Retail, Transport & Logistics, Healthcare, Telecom, and Others): Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2018 - 2025

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A printer is a peripheral device, which accepts input in the form of text or graphics through a digitally connected device and generates a printed document for the user. Portable printer offers various advantages such as simplicity in terms of paper loading, flexible function, and wireless operation, which make it suitable for use in different industry verticals such as retail, healthcare, transportation, and others. Portable printers, also known as mobile printers, can print all document formats, including Microsoft Office Suite and PDF. At present, portable printers are categorized as inkjet, thermal, and impact based on technology. 

Increase in penetration of smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, and notebooks majorly drives the growth of portable printers in Europe and Middle East & Africa. The portable market in Europe constitutes the highest share, owing to developed technological infrastructure, increase in internet penetration, and upsurge in adoption of smart devices. The portable printer market in Middle East & Africa is at a nascent stage, due to development of retail and transport & logistics sectors, increase in internet penetration, and proliferation of smart devices in Middle East & Africa.

On the basis of technology, the thermal segment accounted for the highest revenue in the market in 2017, due to its vast usage in receipt printing, label printing, and barcode printing. The use of portable printer is expected to grow at a significant pace in the transport & logistic sector during the forecast period, owing to increase in need to provide customer satisfaction and to optimize the delivery of goods & services.

 Among the analyzed geographical regions, Europe is expected to account for the highest revenue in the market throughout the forecast period. By technology, the thermal portable printers is expected to garner the highest share in the near future.