Posted August 3rd, 2021 for IDC NEEDHAM, Mass., August 3, 2021 – Total worldwide page volumes printed from office and home devices plummeted nearly 14% year over year in 2020 after several years of stable but slow decline. According to new research from International Data Corporation ( IDC ), 2.8 trillion pages were printed in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic shift from offices to work from home models are behind the sharp decline. The shift in work environments also produced different dynamics for pages printed on laser versus inkjet devices. Laser MFPs and printers are mostly located in the office environment. Due to the impact of lockdowns and the shift to working from home offices, laser pages declined sharply, down 16% year over year in 2020. This decline was even more pronounced for A3 devices. In contrast, pages printed on inkjet devices increased 4% over 2019. Inkjet devices at home that were mostly used for personal printing prior to the pandemi
/PRNewswire/ Arqit Limited ("Arqit"), a leader in quantum encryption technology, has today announced at the G7 Leaders Conference in Cornwall, that it has.