Japan's Ministry of economy, trade and industry statistics show that nearly 10 years Japan printing ink production and sales as a whole has continued downward trend, 2014 continued to decline, yield was only 35.7 million tons, compared with 36.4 million tons in 2013 dropped 2.0 percent; sales of 41.5 million tons, than 426000 tons in 2013 fell 2.5%; sales of 2998 00000000, than 2013 2995 billion yen a slight increase of 0.1%.

The offset and gravure inks is all kinds of printing ink in Japan accounted for than the maximum of two types of ink, production and sales over the years has remained at more than 10 million tons. After 2010, sales of the gravure printing ink anti ultra offset printing ink, become Japanese printing ink in the largest sales class; 2014, gravure printing ink production, sales volume and sales are more than offset printing ink. In 2014, the output of offset ink in Japan for 11.8 million tons, down 4.2% compared with 12.3 million tons in 2013; offset printing ink sales of 13.1 million tons, down 3.4% more than the 13.6 million tons in 2013; offset ink sales of $83.6 billion yen, than 2013 874 billion yen fell by 4.3%. In 2014, the yield of the gravure printing ink to 12.1 million tons, down 1.0% compared with 12.2 million tons in 2013; gravure printing ink sales of 1.58 million tons, dropped 0.7 percent more than the 15.9 million tons in 2013; gravure printing ink sales of $852 billion yen, than 2013 846 billion yen rose 0.7%.