Canon’s Commercial Printing Portfolio Complete
The recent release of the Canon imageRUNNER Advance C9000 series has caused quite a stir in the world of digital and lithographic printing – an affordable, ‘light production’ printing press that’s truly redefining expectations in its class. Now, we have been left in no doubt as to Canon’s ambitions across the entire professional print spectrum, when earlier this week, the company learnt of the surprise launch of two new series of Canon black and white (mono) professional printer/copiers – the imageRUNNER Advance 6000 and the imageRUNNER Advance 8000 series.
The Complete portfolio
There will be six printers in the iR-ADV 6000 series and three in the iR-ADV 8000 series – the iR-ADV 6055, iR-ADV 6055i, iR-ADV 6065, iR-ADV 6065i and the iR-ADV 6075, iR-ADV 6075i for the iR6000 and for the iR Advance 8000 Series – the iR-ADV 8085, iR-ADV 8095 and the iR-ADV 8105. All come with faster processing speeds, more finishing options and are even easier to use than their predecessors. And they complete what will surely be seen by many as the most impressive professional digital printing portfolio in the industry.
The dawn of digital printers
Back in the early 1990s, at the dawn of the digital age, Canon, in its collaboration with EFI, was at the forefront of the digital colour printing revolution, thanks to the mighty Colour Laser Copier (CLC). As time went by, more competitors entered the digital printing market and as consumer demands for higher productivity and more features simultaneously grew, Canon saw the demise of the CLC, as it was sadly eclipsed by rivals.
The launch if imagePRESS technology
With its strategic aim of being the number one manufacturer in the markets it served, Canon was cetainly not about to throw in the towel. Starting in 2006 with the launch of its ImagePress range of digital printing press, Canon began fighting back in the production colour sector providing a solution for short run colour printing. Machines like the ImagePress C7000 provide an affordable alternative to offset printing – no outlay on plates, no multiple runs, impressive finishing options, such as ‘Perfect’ Binding and stunning print quality taboot. Printers who would have spent up to 1,000,000 GBP on litho printing outfit’s previously, have discovered that the ImagePress range can provide comparable quality and at a time when flexibility in the printing industry is key to survival, the ability to print shorter or longer print runs with next to no sunk costs.
Advanced colour digital printing
Then, September last year saw the release of the new Image Runner Advance digital printers. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5000 series, C7000 series and the C9060 and C9070 PRO offer advanced office workgroup, departmental and light production digital printing respectively. They were the first printers to introduce high grade, fire retardant bio-plastic, made from plant derived organic sources. They are quicker than similarly priced rival machines, much easier to use, with large intuitive touch-screen displays, come network ready, and for those concerned about their environmental impact (or their bills), offer outstanding energy efficiency too being Energy Star compliant.
Advanced monochrome digital printing
Now, for medium and heavy duty mono printing come the imageRUNNER 6000 and imageRUNNER 8000 series. Using the base from the colour imageRUNNER Advance series of digital printers, Canon produced a monochrome version designed for printers that only require black and white hardcopy output. The list of features included in these imageRUNNER Advance monochrome printers is exhaustive, but to name a few; both series’ have colour scanning as default, faster processing speeds than their predecessors, can print on paper up to 256 gsm, come with single pass Duplex scanning, have optional Fiery imagePass U1, have scan speeds of up to 200ipm, come with iSEND as standard, have 2 or 4 hole punch as standard and offer Adobe Postscript printing without a fiery…. the list really does go on. In addition, the iR-ADV 8000 series printers also have 5 different fold options for brochures, compared to its predecessors only having Z-fold.
Canon’s complete range of commercial printing solutions
This completes Canon’s range of commercial printers, both colour and monochrome (black and white). Moreover, due to the increased quality these digital printers now produce they are being considered as a viable replacement for lithographic printers entirely. Allowing commercial printer or central reprographics departments to produce photo books, brochure printing, leaflet printing, poster printing, catalogue printing, magazine printing, business stationary printing such as letterheads, and of course the classic document printing, all in true pantone matched colour or high quality black and white.
The new ranges are only available at selected Canon dealerships and Falcon Document Management will happily be among the first to get their hands on them.
It’s incredible to have witnessed what seems a like a deluge of outstanding machines from Canon, all within the space of less than a year. The team at Falcon Document Management really does feel greatly priveleged to be able to offer such an outstanding digital printing portfolio to their customers.
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Jeremy Samson is an imaging technology expert writing extensively on the latest developments in the document managment industry.
Who is the living authority on lithographs in the USA?
I have two Sadanobu Hasegawa prints, Cirtified by Societe de verification de la nouvelle Gravure International of New York and Paris though there are no dates that i can see or decipher i am beleve the prints themselves were made in the 1940-50s do these prints have any value, all i can find on the net are new ones…
Hi. I doubt there is only one living authority on lithographs in the US. Usually art museums have a list of trustworthy appraisers that they use. You could try calling your closest art museum and see if they can give you a name. Of course, you’ll have to pay. But going to a respected appraiser is the only way to get reliable information about the work you have.
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