Celebrating 20 years of Canon imagePRESS
This video celebrates 20 years of Canon imagePRESS and the impact it has had on the production print industry. For two decades, the imagePRESS platform has helped print providers deliver outstanding color quality, consistent performance, and reliable productivity. From commercial printing to in-plant environments, imagePRESS technology continues to support a wide range of applications and evolving customer needs. Join us as we look back on 20 years of innovation and the role imagePRESS has played in helping businesses produce exceptional print.
Two Decades of Digital Print Innovation: How the Canon imagePRESS Evolution Empowers Commercial Print Providers
The commercial printing industry is an incredibly dynamic environment, where print is always changing and new market trends are constantly emerging. For print service providers aiming to run a high-quality operation, investing in the right equipment is an absolute necessity.
For more than two decades, Canon has responded to this need by engineering high-performance digital presses specifically tailored for the production print industry. Through a deep commitment to continuous innovation, the organization has firmly established itself as a market leader with a wide production product portfolio. With nearly 200,000 global installations, including over 70,000 installations throughout the United States, Canon continues to expand its technological reach and help businesses seamlessly adapt to the future.
Meeting the Demands of a Changing Market
Modern commercial printers face a complex array of daily manufacturing challenges. Customers today consistently demand significantly shorter turnaround times alongside highly versatile product offerings. Furthermore, the nature of the printed materials themselves has fundamentally shifted, as almost everything printed in the modern market is personalized in some way, shape, or form.
Historically, commercial printers struggled to find digital solutions that could handle these complex, customized variable-data jobs while still matching the premium visual quality of traditional offset presses. Facilities needed a robust technological solution to help drastically increase their overarching throughput and machine uptime without constantly struggling with complex mechanical setups or lengthy operational delays.
The Canon Solution: A Legacy of the imagePRESS
To help solve these industry-wide bottlenecks, Canon established a foundational strategy of always listening to the client. By actively asking customers what they needed and closely studying emerging trends, Canon introduced the iconic imagePRESS brand in 2006. This revolutionary hardware was designed specifically to bring true, offset-level quality to the commercial print segment at remarkably high speeds. This launch served as a total game changer, successfully opening doors to entirely new customers who wanted to expand their creative offerings and accelerate their delivery schedules.
As the market continued to evolve, so did Canon's technology. In 2014, the organization continued this successful evolution by introducing the imagePRESS C800 Series, specifically tailored for the light production market. Simultaneously, Canon launched the imagePRESS C10000VP Series, which effectively allowed customers to expand their production scalability into even more demanding manufacturing environments. These robust presses transformed commercial businesses by empowering them to comfortably realize much higher print volumes while benefiting from a strict commitment to higher color stability and repeatability.
To further support these hardware advancements, Canon introduced the PRISMA workflow solutions. This advanced software platform acts essentially like a second operator for a print facility, making complex job preparation an absolute breeze and drastically accelerating the entire production workflow. Most recently, Canon took production versatility and automation to the next level by unveiling the imagePRESS V Family. This latest generation features cutting-edge technology innovations, including the ILS, Multi D.A.T., and a highly advanced sensing unit.
Streamlined Automation and Remarkable Uptime
The continuous evolution of the Canon imagePRESS line has helped deliver highly measurable benefits to commercial print providers. By utilizing the imagePRESS V Family, critical operator routines are now fully automated. This intelligent automation actively drives highly repeatable color accuracy, ensures excellent front-to-back registration, and provides incredibly reliable media handling. Because these complex tasks are automated, both novice and highly experienced press operators have the specific tools required to tackle the most complex print jobs. The advanced system easily handles a massive variety of different media types and flawlessly integrates with a wide range of inline and near-line finishing solutions.
Furthermore, the integration of the PRISMA system helps print providers to achieve and easily maintain G7 certification, which serves as a massive vote of confidence for both the print facility and their end clients. Operationally, facilities utilizing Canon imagePRESS technology report a dramatic increase in overall machine uptime. Transitioning work from traditional offset presses directly to a Canon imagePRESS allows organizations to be extremely price competitive, offering great value and price point to their clients. Ultimately, by streamlining business processes and rapidly accelerating production speeds, Canon has helped facilities generate a huge change in overall customer satisfaction due to significantly faster turnaround times.
With a keen awareness of a constantly changing market, Canon ensures that the imagePRESS line is continually evolving to help customers overcome new daily challenges. The organization is always looking toward the future, heavily investing in vital research and development so this legacy of innovation will continue for decades to come.
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