Canon enters colour digital printing biz

R Jai Krishna

NEW DELHI: Canon is seriously getting into colour digital printing business.

Disclosing this to CyberMedia News, Puneet Datta, senior manager, marketing for business imaging solutions said that the company will launch imaging printers for pre-press industry by third quarter of this year.

“We will be launching Image-press range, with C-7000VP printer which will mark our serious first foray into colour digital printing,” he informed.

Stating that the image-press range will have the capacity for short-runs with 10,000 paper capacity, Datta said all the features which have been an obstacle for such printers with other competitors have been negated.

“The key features will be that the speed does not vary on the media being used for printing, and it can handle 13’ X 19.2’ paper size,” he said.

Datta said that Canon’s foray was marked by the potential for imaging printers for the pre-press industry estimated at $ 17 billion by 2010 and the growth in the segment being 55 per cent in 2005 alone.

“We are heavily investing in the segment, especially on the people and training for targeting the pre-press segment,” he added.

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