"Color drove the production market, and it wasn't just high-speed inkjet having a great quarter. Color laser saw a double-digit gain as that technology grew nearly 20% on an annual basis. Mid-production color laser is also contributing quite a bit of sales volume but laser full production was the real story of the first quarter of the year," says Amy Machado, senior research analyst, Hardcopy Peripheral Solutions, IDC. "New entrants like the Xerox Versant and the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1000 – production class machines with a lower price point – are seeing very strong demand."