Does e-paper represent a threat to printing businesses?
As e-paper use is predicted to be widespread in five years' time, we ask what impact it will have
31st July 2009
TRANSACTIONAL
PRINTER
Lance Hill, managing
director, Transcom
4DM
I think they can co-exist and I certainly think it will take longer than five years for any significant impact to be felt. The internet had an impact on newspapers, but not to the extent that some people predicted and now they co-exist. In the transaction and billing market, there's a very similar thing, because in 10 years time, when the next generation of young adults arrives, they're probably not going to want to have a bill through the door. They're going to want to have everything on mobile phone or via the internet. But the older generation will still tend to favour paper, so the two will co-exist, and the one will never fully disappear.