The Future of Digital Textile Printing to 2021, the print market researcher forecasted annual average growth for the next five years to be 12.3%, which will see the market more than double, from sales of €1.2bn (£1bn) to €2.4bn.

Our analysis predicts volumes of fabric being printed with inkjet equipment will increase at an even faster rate than the growth of the market. Currently, 870m sqm of fabric is printed annually and this could rise to 1.95 billion sqm by 2021. Digital textile printing is growing because of the same advantages inkjet offers in other applications – reduced setup times, faster order response and the ability to produce small, customized runs.