Canon Announces the New S820D Printer, the First True Direct Connect Ink Jet Printer.Business & High-Tech Editors LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2001 New Printer Connects to Canon PowerShot The PowerShot products are a line of consumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1995. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. Digital Cameras Via USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. Cable And Has Memory Card Slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. For Instant Photo Prints The Digital Home and Personal Systems Division of Canon U.S.A. Inc, which is a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CAJ CAJ Canadian Association of Journalists CAJ Christliche Arbeiterjugend (German Young Christian Workers) CAJ China Academic Journals CAJ Christian Academy in Japan CAJ Canaima, Venezuela (Airport Code) ) today announced a digital photography breakthrough: the S820D, a Bubble Jet Canon's trade name for its thermal drop on demand inkjet printer technology. The ink is heated, which produces a bubble that expands and ejects the ink out of the nozzle. As the bubble cools, the vacuum created draws fresh ink back into the nozzle. Direct printer which connects directly to two new Canon PowerShot digital cameras, the PowerShot S30 and PowerShot S40 digital cameras, via a proprietary cable - the first true direct connect ink jet printer See inkjet printer. . In addition, the printer has a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. Type II memory card slot so that any brand digital camera owner can insert their "digital film" into the printer for instant digital photo prints. "Digital photography is going mainstream and consumers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. easy solutions which provide results that match professional photo labs," says Ryoichi Bamba, senior vice president and general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc. "Canon is the only company which has a history and expertise in both lens and optic technology as well as printing technology. It makes perfect sense that we would be the first company to introduce a ink jet printer which can connect directly to a digital camera to create photographic prints with results that are unmatched by competitive products." Instant Photo Printing While direct connect printers, such as Canon's CP-10 dye-sub printer, can print wallet size photos instantly, the new S820D Bubble Jet printer Noun 1. bubble jet printer - a kind of ink-jet printer bubble-jet printer, bubblejet ink-jet printer - a printer that produces characters by projecting electrically charged droplets of ink is the ink jet industry's first photo printer to connect directly to a digital camera to instantly print out 4x6-inch or 8x10-inch digital images and photos, allowing end-users to completely bypass the PC. Using a dedicated USB cable included with the printer, the S820D printer connects to either the PowerShot S30 or PowerShot S40, two new Canon digital cameras also announced today. As a full-featured photo printer, the S820D printer supports DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) A file format for digital camera memory cards that stipulates which images are to be printed. At the time of shooting or when reviewing on the camera, it allows the user to specify how many of each image are to be printed. (Digital Print Order Format) to allow for the pre-selection of images from a PCMCIA Type II memory card slot, located on the top of the printer, which accepts CompactFlash (CF) cards, Smart Media, SD Card, Memory Stick and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Microdrive and other PCMCIA compatible memory cards. A CF adapter is included with the printer. The S820D printer includes an LCD control panel and an optional Canon Image viewer, a TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor 1.5-inch color image viewer that allows end-users to preview their photos before printing. The LCD panel has multiple functions to select media type, layout, quality, print date, optimize image (to use new Photo Optimizer Pro/new Vivid Photo) and required sheets. Next Generation Photo Printing In addition to its superior photo printing performance, the S820D printer can also connect to a PC or Mac via a traditional USB cable. As the next generation of Canon's superior photo printer the S800 Color Bubble Jet printer, the S820D printer features Canon's Advanced Microfine Droplet droplet very small drop of fluid. droplet nuclei the finite particles of matter which are transmitted from animal to animal. Technology to achieve 2400x1200 dots-per-inch (dpi) - up to 2.88 million dots per square inch, the highest resolution of any printer in this class -- and a four picoliter droplet for the highest quality photo prints and pristine text or Web printing. Joining Canon's Bubble Jet printer line as a six-color printer, the S820D printer achieves 49 levels of color gradation gradation: see ablaut. for smoother transition between colors and almost no graininess graininess a fault in x-ray films in which there is clumping together of the silver particles in the emulsion, causing the image to lose its homogeneous appearance and to give an impression of lumpiness. achieving true photo quality prints. A hallmark of Canon's current "S" series of Bubble Jet printers, great print quality is not sacrificed to achieve speed. The S820D printer uses bi-directional printing and relay paper feeding to achieve fast printing times - 8x10-inch photo prints in approximately two minutes and 4x6-inch prints in less than one minute -- both speeds at the default resolution of 1200x1200 dpi (standard mode) on plain paper. Continually expanding its photo printing features, the Canon has included edge-to-edge printing on its S820D printer. This feature allows end-users to create borderless photo prints similar to prints from professional photo labs. A special new borderless paper will be available for the S820D printer in both 4x6-inch and 8.5x11-inch letter-size Photo Paper Pro paper. Canon ThinkTank System Canon's unique individual ink tank system with six separate ink tanks offers improved cost of ownership with its no-ink-waste design and optical low ink sensor. As the ink jet printer industry has addressed end-user demands for great quality and fast speeds, cost of ownership is the next consideration and it is here where Canon reigns supreme. As the first ink jet printer manufacturer to offer the feature of individual ink tanks, where you only replace the ink tank which is depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d , end-users are responding to this customer-friendly feature. In addition to the S820D printer's improved cost of ownership, its Canon BCI-6 series inks have a higher optical density for improved photo quality. And, when images are printed on Canon Photo Paper Pro paper, internal Canon tests have found that the photos last for up to 25 years before fading(a). Canon PhotoRecord Software Canon PhotoRecord software helps end-users quickly and easily create beautiful photos that look like they were produced in a professional photo lab. The software includes a variety of frames and borders and allows for easy cropping, rotating and re-sizing. In addition, end-users can choose the paper size desired without having to go to the printer driver. The biggest end-user advantage of the Canon PhotoRecord software, which comes bundled with most Canon Bubble Jet printers, Canon PowerShot digital cameras and CanoScan scanners, is that it automatically recognizes the Canon digital camera model and Canon printer model used for the image and balances the color tables between the two products for best photo color results. This function allows even novice end-users to create photos that previously only the most sophisticated, more professional digital photographers have been able to achieve. New features found in this version of PhotoRecord include: Borderless printing, index printing so end-users can print multiple thumbnail images on one sheet. In addition, this latest version of PhotoRecord includes Photo Optimizer Pro/Vivid Photo - a new feature that creates a wider color gamut than a traditional printer's RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). standard through a new image processing technology. The resulting color range is greatly expanded to achieve true film-like photo prints. Availability and Pricing The S820D printer is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000 and Windows XP as well as Mac OS 8.6-9.x. Taking a cue from the stylish Canon digital camera products such as the popular PowerShot digital cameras and digital ELPH ELPH electronic photography (Canon camera model) ELPH Electronic Physics cameras, the new S820D printer comes in a two-tone design of marezzo gray with a silver metallic lid. Estimated street price for the S820D printer is $399(b) including the dedicated USB cable and PCMCIA Type II CF adapter. The optional LCD image viewer has an estimated street price of $99(b). The new S820D printer will be available in the first quarter of 2002. About Canon U.S.A., Inc. The Digital Home and Personal Systems division, formerly known as Canon Computer Systems Inc. (CCSI CCSI Computer & Control Solutions, Inc CCSI Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (training qualification) CCSI Canadian Centre for Swine Improvement CCSI Contemporary Control Systems, Inc CCSI Channel Coding with Side Information ) was created by Canon U.S.A. Inc. in January 2001 to address the company's commitment to the digital imaging customer. Canon U.S.A., Inc. is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging solutions and, through its parent company, Canon, Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), is a top patent-holder of imaging technologies. The company's comprehensive product line includes networked multifunction devices; digital and analog copiers (color and black and white); printers; scanners; image filing systems; and facsimile machines, camcorders, cameras and lenses; and semiconductor, broadcast and medical equipment. Canon employs 12,000 people at more than 30 facilities throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Specifications subject to change without notice. (a) Based on Canon Inc. studies using Canon Photo Paper Pro, under glass, utilizing industry standard lighting conditions and controlled temperature and humidity. Results may vary based on individual environmental factors. See www.usa.canon.com/consumer/lightfast for details. (b) Prices are estimates only at time materials were created. Prices subject to change at any time. Actual prices are determined by individual dealers and may vary. |
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