Showing posts with label Canon. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Print Production Weekend Notes


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- A printshop announced it is installing a wind turbine to generate electricity to drive its production systems. Phoenix Press, of North Haven, CT, hopes to use the turbine to provide one third of the power it needs to run its Kodak DigiMaster 9110, Canon imageRUNNER 7095 and imageRUNNER C5180 units.

- Hewlett Packard announced it sold two Indigo 7000 production color systems to Capitol City Press of Tumwater, Washington.

- Hewlett Packard announced it sold an Indigo 5500 to ProGraphics Communications of Atlanta, GA.

- Hewlett Packard announced it sold an Indigo 5500 production color system to Positive Images of Mitcham, Surrey, England.

- Ricoh launched a new production color system, called the PRO C720 system offering:
- Slowed down, cheaper version of the slow selling C900
- Offers a top speed of 72ppm versus 90ppm of the C900
- Maximum duty cycle of only 320K/month
- Runs at same speed, regardless of paper weight, like the C900, up to 110lb. cover
- Uses same EFI Fiery as C900
- finishing options are limited to saddle stitch booklet maker and standard finisher

- Xerox announced it has sold a Xerox Nuvera 288 production b/w system to CFH Total Document Management of Somerset, England.

- Xerox announced it has sold a Xerox Nuvera 288 production b/w system and an iGen3 production color system to Hamilton Printing Co. of Castleton, NY.


-=Cheers=-

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Urner Barry Printing Deploys Canon imagePRESS C6000 Digital Press



Canon U.S.A., Inc. and a leading provider of document imaging and office solutions, today announced that Urner Barry Printing & Mailing, a one-stop-shop for design, print, and mail services, has installed the Canon imagePRESS C6000 digital press to support the growing demand for short-run quality color output.

“The Canon imagePRESS has helped us sharpen our competitive edge on digital short run offerings and absorb short run work from our pressroom. We have reduced our click charges, broadened our range of print media, improved our quality, and eliminated the production issues we experienced with our previous machine,” said Chris Ashley, Director of Operations.

The Canon imagePRESS line represents the largest single-engine R&D investment in Canon's history. Capable of printing images up to 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution with a superior level of quality, the imagePRESS C6000 prints at 60 letter pages per minute, including media up to 110lb cover stock. With its robust set of image-processing, color-management, and in-line finishing technologies, the imagePRESS C6000 digital press enables you to handle almost any type of job a customer might request.

“Urner Barry Printing & Mailing has been a Canon customer for years because of our high quality equipment and strong service organization,” said Denis Griff, Sr. Director of Production Print, Canon Business Solutions, Inc. “The addition of the imagePRESS C6000 will help Urner Barry Printing & Mailing to expand their product line and generate a stronger ROI.”

Source: http://solutions.canon.com/home/homePage.shtml

-=Good Selling=-

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Canon imageRUNNER Adavance "Spec Review"


Canon releases more information on its upcoming new production color systems, called the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9065 & C9075:

- All models still use the off-white plastic design
- None apparently offer true 8 bits per pixel imaging
- both advertised as light production color systems
- Designed to compete against the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C5501 & C6501
- Base MSRP for C9065 will be $40,000
- Small engine footprint (appears to be designed on a workgroup engine format)
- Tandem 4 drum OPC design
- uses pulverized toner infused with wax
- Console design with two large letter size drawers and two 11”x17” drawers
- Optional side mount paper decks for a total paper capacity of 9,300 sheets
- Up to 13”x19” paper handling
- maximum paper weight handling of 300gsm
- will support coated stock and tab stocks
- Uses 200v/15 amp circuit
- 60ppm color and 65ppm b/w for C9065
- 70ppm color and 75ppm b/w for C9075
- Document feeder can scan both sides at same time
- scans b/w originals at 100opm top speed (at 200dpi)
- scan color originals at 70opm top speed
- 10.4” touch screen color LCD panel on an armature
- can be customized by end user
- Comes standard with generic PCL controller with optional PostScript
- Optional embedded or external Fiery controllers
- Optional external Creo controller
- actual copy resolution of 600x600dpi and 1200x1200dpi print resolution
- advertised as offering up to 9600dpi with interpolation

-=Cheers=-

Monday, July 13, 2009

Canon USA Introduces imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO and C9065 PRO ...


Delivering new color capabilities to the light production marketplace, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital document imaging, today introduced the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO and C9065 PRO multifunction products.

“These new imageRUNNER ADVANCE models will provide high-speed color and black-and-white performance, exceptional print quality, advanced finishing and media support, solutions integration and reliability,” said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A, Inc. “The new imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO and C9065 PRO models will open up new opportunities for digital color printing in light production environments.”

Building upon the Company’s recent success in the production marketplace, these new models round out Canon’s digital color solutions portfolio to help meet the growing needs of a vast array of production users, from small copy centers and quick print shops to high-end commercial print environments.

“Canon’s success in the production space has been largely based on its ability to deliver a depth and breadth of quality products that are unrivaled in the market,” added Yoshida. “The new imageRUNNER ADVANCE is no exception. With a smaller footprint and cost that is easy to justify, these new models from Canon will bring an outstanding level of quality and functionality to this class.”

imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO/C9065 PRO

Built using an entirely new system and hardware platform, the new imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO/C9065 PRO models will be ideal for high-volume color environments, including Central Reprographics Departments (CRDs) and Print Service Providers.

The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO will produce letter-sized output at up to 75-pages-per-minute (ppm) in black-and-white and 70 ppm in color, while the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9065 PRO will operate at up to 65 ppm in both black-and-white and color.

Incorporating a 10.4-inch upright full color LCD control panel, the new imageRUNNER ADVANCE models will have a new customizable user interface to help define and simplify specific user workflows and allow users to be more productive and efficient.

The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO/C9065 PRO will also have robust and flexible paper and media handling capacities. Through a variety of optional hardware accessories, the new models will have a paper capacity up to 9,300 sheets and will support sizes up to 13 x 19.2-inches and with a weight up to 300gsm (110 lb. Cover). Coated Paper and Tab Paper are also supported.

The new models will come standard with Canon’s Ultra Fast Rendering II (UFRII) printing technology, as well as optional Adobe PostScript 3 and PCL 5c/6 capabilities. For high color intensive users, there will be new imagePASS and ColorPASS print controller options available.

The new models will provide true 1,200 x 1,200 dots-per-inch (dpi) print resolution. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO and C9065 PRO will deliver exceptional output image quality, yielding smooth, vivid and well-defined images by virtue of the new architecture and technologies.

Both models will utilize a new, high-capacity Single Pass Duplex Document Feeder with scan speeds up to 200 images-per-minute (ipm) for black-and-white, two-sided and letter-sized documents. In addition to fast output and scan speeds, the new models will be available with a number of robust finishing solutions, including multiple folding options, professional punching and booklet trimming.

The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9075 PRO/C9065 PRO models are expected to be available for customer delivery in the fourth quarter of 2009 through Canon Authorized Dealers and Canon Business Solutions.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), a top patent holder of technology, ranked third overall in the U.S. in 2008†, with global revenues of US $45 billion, is listed as number seven in the computer industry on Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies 2008 list, and is on the 2008 BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." At Canon, we care because caring is essential to living together in harmony. Founded upon a corporate philosophy of Kyosei – "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future" – Canon U.S.A. supports a number of social, youth, educational and other programs, including environmental and recycling initiatives. Additional information about these programs can be found at http://www.usa.canon.com/kyosei. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting http://www.usa.canon.com/rss.

† Based on weekly patent counts issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners

Monday, March 23, 2009

Weekend Production Print Notes

Hewlett Packard announced it will temporarily shut down its Indigo production color system plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel for up to three months. There is a concern that the shut down may be permanent according to Israel newspaper, GLOBES.

Canon announced that it has sold an imagePRESS C6000 production color system to a Century 21 Real Estate office in Chicago, where it will be used to produce marketing materials and color postcards.

Canon announced it has authorized Agfa Graphics to resell its imagePRESS production color systems to increase sales to graphic arts markets.

Xerox announced it sold an iGen4 production color system to Gabriel Group, a printshop in St. Louis, MO.

Oce’ announced it is shipping two new high speed color inkjet production systems, the JetStream 500 (505ppm) and the JetStream 1000 (1070ppm). Pricing not announced.

Oce’ now shipping the ColorStream 9000 color laser production system, running at 168ppm. Pricing not announced.

-=Good Selling=-

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Canon imagePRESS C7000VP

Thought, I'd also get Canon's entries also, enjoy the video. End user tells about their needs for digital printing and how the imagePress fit those needs.