Digital Presses 2020 – The Top Picks: Canon

DreamLabo 5000
Canon’s DreamLabo 5000 is a seven-colour inkjet production photo printer designed for retail photo printing and high-end print-on-demand market. It has 305-mm wide high-density printhead and incorporates Canon’s FINE (Fullphotolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) technology that enables a resolution of 2,400×1,200-dpi. Using seven dye-based aqueous ink colors (CMYK plus light cyan, light magenta, and grey), it delivers a wide colour gamut, smooth gradations, vibrant and accurate colour reproduction. This is a roll-to-sheet printer having automatic double-sided printing function up to 12x25-inches size and is capable of producing a 20-page A4-format photo album in 72 seconds or forty 4x6-inches photo prints in a minute. It uses no harmful chemicals and provides virtually an odourless operation. It is ideal for photo albums, personalised photobooks, photo calendars, art books, single prints, premium brochures and more

Imagepress C710
Canon Imagepress C710 series is a light to midvolume production colour digital press that incorporates advanced technologies to help small commercial printers drive business performance in a compact footprint. It offers production speeds up to 70-ppm, while featuring an intuitive, flexible design that delivers both productivity and versatility. It incorporates many image quality and productivity enhancements like 2,400x2,400- dpi, 190-lpi offset equivalent print quality, CRT unit for better front and back print registration, and supports printing on media up to 1,300- mm allowing expanded application support of novel marketing collateral, pocket folders and banners. The new Imagepress C710 series offers a choice of EFI Fiery digital front ends like H350 or G250, built on Fiery FS350 platform that promises fast processing, superb image quality and streamlined, automated workflows for sheet-fed digital production systems.

Imagepress C850
Canon Imagepress C850 series offers time and cost savings to demanding print needs for commercial printers, central reprographics departments, print rooms and graphic arts environments. The Imagepress C850 operates at print speeds of up to 85 A4 pages per minute in colour and B/W. It incorporates a range of innovative features such as Canon’s gloss optimisation technology, matching the gloss of the toner image to that of the media used, and a 32-beam R-VCSEL (red laser) to help produce crisp and clear images efficiently at 2,400x2,400-dpi. The consistently vivid toner and an advanced image transfer belt can print high-quality, consistent output on a variety of media, including textured stocks. 

Imagepress C8000VP
Canon Imagepress C8000VP is perceived as a distinguished machine, meeting the evolving needs of the professional printing space. The printer is especially designed to meet higher production volumes for both commercial and in-house print service providers without compromising on quality. Equipped with a speed of 80-ppm, the machine offers optimum productivity across an extensive media range up to 350-gsm. The iPR C8000VP uses Canon’s newly developed innovative consistently vivid toner which improves transfer efficiency for enhanced colour consistency and accuracy across a wide variety of media. The printer comes with 2,400x2,400-dpi resolution enabling even higher precision in the printing of text and images. An in-line spectroscopic sensor and new multi-density adjustment technology deliver real-time colour calibration to ensure consistent quality day after day. This engine is driven by EFI Digital Front End for performance, colour accuracy, usability, and integration. 

Imagepress C10000VP
Canon Imagepress C10000VP has been especially designed to meet higher production volumes for both commercial and in-house print service providers. Equipped with a speed of 100-ppm, the machine offers optimum productivity across an extensive media range up to 350-gsm. The iPR C10000VP uses Canon’s innovative consistently vivid toner which improves transfer efficiency. It supports an extensive range of media, including texture papers and has various media handling technologies like suction feeding, straight paper path and best in class front-back registration technology which helps produce better finished products. This engine is driven by EFI Digital Front End for performance, colour accuracy, usability, and integration that improve the quality and efficiency of digital printing. This is an ideal solution for brochures, business cards, catalogues, manuals, coffee table books, proofing, texture media printing and POD books.