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Canon holds this event once every 5 years, and I missed it by this much!
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“Canon EXPO” and featured breakout sessions on:
o Advanced Solutions for Healthcare Market (how to sell to this vertical)
o Green 2.0 – Angele Boyd – IDC (reducing use of paper in office)
o The Future of Print – Frank Romano (production printing technology)
o Advanced Solutions for Legal Market (how to sell to this vertical)
o Nursing Document Workflows Back to Good Health – Karen Minton – University of Kentucky College of Nursing (actual customer talks about Canon solutions)
o Helping Your Teenage MFP Overcome Insecurity – Brian Bissett (how Canon addresses data security concerns)
o Marketing 101 For Print Service Providers – Barb Pellow (how print for pay customers can market output)
o Talking With Your MFP – Not As Crazy As It Sounds – Robert Weiderman – (Nuance exec shows prototype of eCopy unit that has voice recognition for voice command of MFP)
o Beyond the Purchase – The True Cost of Ownership – Marc Baker – Comcast Cable (actual customer discusses consolidating devices into smaller fleet of Canon MFPs)
o Making Green By Being Green – (how companies can achieve green goals with Canon MFPs)
o Delivering Greater Efficiencies and Economies For Your Business – (Canon’s managed print services program, called Managed Document Services)
- Canon updated its managed print services program, called Canon Managed Document Services:
o Offers infrastructure for centralized service dispatch
o Billing and helpdesk support
o imageWARE Enterprise Management Console for network device management
o Ecology Information Plug-in provides accurate measurement and analysis of CO2 emissions based on power consumption and paper volume usage
o Remote Diagnostic System (RDS) Plug-in facilitates automated meter collection and pre-emptive service alerts
- Canon announced it sold an imagePRESS C7000 production color systems to the following BCT print for pay locations:
o Houston
o Akron
o Minneapolis
o Las Vegas
o Milwaukee
o Dallas
o Mobile
o Indianapolis
o Denver
o Chicago
o Fort Lauderdale
o Orlando
o Columbia
o Pittsburgh
- Canon announced it is starting a subsidiary in New York, with 150 employees, that will provide professional services.
- Canon announced version 5.0 of its optional UniFLOW solution software for its MFPs:
o (competes with Konica Minolta PageScope Enterprise Suite)
o Decision based workflow objects
o Direct integration into MFP device firmware
o Card authentication, secure printing and cost center selection
o In future, will support biometric devices
o Universal print driver for PCL and PostScript printing only
o Universal Driver now supports booklet printing
o Administrator can create rules based print routing to direct large print jobs to appropriate MFP
o Offers a type of “follow you” printing, allowing end user to print to a queue, and then retrieve job from any connected Canon MFP device.
o Supports billing codes for cost recovery
o Access Management System allows Admin to determine, by user, whether they are allowed to Send or Copy.
o Change finishing options before releasing confidential jobs directly on Canon MFP panel
o Select and print documents from public archive
o Unknown ID cards can be automatically assigned to users via username and password
o Allows users to see only thumbnail of the first page of a document
o SQL Connector for Import/Export of Data, allows importation of cost center data directly into accounting systems
o Global Workflows allow workflows to be pushed to entire fleet by IT
o Integrates with optional imageWARE Secure Audit Manager for audit trails
o Tracks all emails made from MFP, by attaching credentials of the user to sent emails
- Canon gave out more details on its plans to replace the imagePRESS C6000/C7000 series of production color laser systems with new models, called the imagePRESS C6010/C7010 series:
o Will start shipping on 10/1/2010 (tentative)
o Auto duplex up to 325gsm
o Faster speed on duplexed output
o New humidity sensor for more accurate toner distribution
o New airflow unit and toner density stabilization control
o New toner formulation with particles as small as 5.5 microns, called “V Toner”
o Claims it will now print on some textured stocks
o Can support up to 120lb. cover weight at engine speed
o Now supports use of some recycled paper
o Has a “deinkability” score of 98 by INGEDE to ability to remove toner from printed page for paper recycling
o Toner cartridges and waste toner receptacle is now recylcable
o New three stage auto eject features to simplify paper jam job recovery
o New end user controls for registration adjustments
o New option called Saddle Press allows stitching up to 25 sheet of paper, up to 13”x19.2”
o New options for the Canon Essential Business Builder suite that provides print shop owners with skills to sell output
o Uses less power than previous Canon models
o Optional X-Rite i1Process Control v3 software
Spot Color Optimization
Print Safe Colors (view Pantones before printing them)
CMYK printer profiling
Includes i1Pro spectrophotometer (measures toner density and hue)
Advanced display profiling
Uses i1iO and i1iSis automated chart readers
Verify output against ISO 12647-7 targets
Perform measurement and gamut analysis
Includes Pantone Plus series digital color library
o Optional EFI Fiery print servers
Named imagePRESS Servers A1200, A2200 & A3200
New operating system, called System 9 R2
30% faster RIPping over previous models
“Spool-RIP-Print Simultaneously” feature
Adobe PDF engine
Improved JDF integration
o Optional Kodak Creo print server, called imagePRESS CR Server A7500
o Canon claims to have 1,000 imagePRESS color systems (includes the 15ppm imagePRESS C1) across Europe since early 2007
-=Good Selling=-
