InfoTrends released a study last week that said the number of people printing at home since 2004 is down 10%. By 2010, the amount of home prints is expected to decline to 45%, down from 53% this year. InfoTrends believes that people are getting fed with the cost of ink and so they are using places like Costco or Wal-Mart to print their pictures.

It seems pretty difficult to forecast what the home printing market is going to be like four years from now since it changes so rapidly. Four years ago, home printing was just beginning to become popular and the majority of people probably still had film cameras and got their prints done at their local drug store. The market has exploded over the past few years, so it’s expected that it will cool down at some point. It just doesn’t seem like it has peaked already and now it will start to decline significantly every year.

On a side note, according to their study, there were 17 billion digital prints made in this country last year.

Home Is Where The Printer Is, For Now [Forbes]