This IDC study examines five vendors in the U.S. hardcopy market that have consistently targeted growth in share of color hardcopy pages for the past few years: Canon, HP, Konica Minolta, the Ricoh family, and Xerox. These vendors have been challenged by Dell, Sharp, and Lexmark in the enterprise environment. This study reviews the trends of the top 5 vendors in the production environments of production color 45ppm+ MFPs, high-end color systems (HECS), and highlight color, and it provides a current profile providing the foundation for future growth. "Production color vendors will be continually challenged to create the next fresh case for a color production job to migrate from offset to digital." ? Sue Lyon, research director, IDC Hardcopy Peripherals and Document Solutions