Epson India eyes 25% growth in 2011-12

Digital imaging solutions provider, Epson India said it is eyeing revenue growth of 25 per cent in 2011-12 as against the previous fiscal.

“This fiscal, we are targeting 25 per cent growth in revenue. We are seeing strong growth across segments, but the growth is especially strong in the consumer segment”, said S M Ramprasad, deputy general manager at the launch of the company's new range of printers here. The company has rolled out two new printers for the consumer segment -- Epson L100 Inkjet printer and L200 Inkjet All-in-One priced at Rs 8,999 and Rs 10,999 respectively. On providing after sales services, Ramprasad said the company has 181 service centres across 160 cities throughout the country and its focus is to provide on site services to the customers.

Epson launched its products recently at the annual nSolution partner engagement programme held in the city, targeting system integrators, corporate resellers and office automation partners. The new printers feature Epson original ink tanks that help users increase productivity and save on printing costs. The printers come with a starting set of one black 70 milli-litre ink bottle that can print 4,000 black pages and three 70 milli-litre colour ink cartridges that can print 6500 colour pages.

With each set of one black and three colour inks, the printers offer a low cost per page of only 10 paise per black page and 20 paise per colour page. In addition, each new unit comes with two additional black ink bottles.

The company is enjoying 22 per cent market share on pan-India basis and in Orissa, the printing company has a share of 25 per cent.