Canon Breaks Photo Quality Printing Barrier; New Bubble Jet Technologies Achieve Industry "Firsts" To Match Photographic Film Output.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1997-- Canon Sets Industry Firsts: First 7-Color Ink Jet See inkjet printer. First 100 Percent Water Resistance in Black and Color First Bi-level Ink Printing on Plain Paper First "Snap-in" Scanner Cartridge for Bubble Jet Printers 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 New Bubble Jet Printers Change the Rules of the Game, It's Not Just About DPI (Dots Per Inch) The measurement of the resolution of display and printing systems. A typical CRT screen provides 96 dpi, which provides 9,216 dots per square inch (96x96). Flat panel displays from 110 to 200 dpi have also been developed. Anymore Recognized worldwide as a technology leader and innovator, 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 ) Monday announced its new line of photo-quality Bubble Jet printers that achieve industry milestones in print quality and customer ease-of-use. As Canon's new top-of-the-line model, the BJC-7000 is a marvel in printing technology boasting the ink jet industry's first seven-color printing system, the only 100 percent water-resistance in both black and color printing “colour separation” redirects here. For other uses, see colour-separation overlay. Color printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). and achieving the only Bi-level Ink printing on plain paper. The new BJC-4304 Photo, which replaces the BJC-4200 model, also breaks new ground with a unique technology that delivers two different-sized drops -- regular and half-size -- in the same scan line A horizontal line (a row) in a video frame. Camcorders sense image frames a line at a time, and display systems create images a line at a time. The scan lines are the vertical resolution of the system; for example, an NTSC TV signal uses 525 lines, 480 of which contain image data with the same printhead printhead n → cabeza impresora printhead n → tête f d'impression printhead print n → Druckkopf m . The results are smoother gradation gradation: see ablaut. between colors and detailed photographic output. In addition, the BJC-4304 Photo can be used with Canon's exclusive, new Color Image A (digital) color image is a digital image that includes color information for each pixel. For visually acceptable results, it is necessary (and almost sufficient) to provide three samples (color channels Scanner Cartridge, a miniaturized scanhead, which when swapped out swapped out - swap with the printer's printhead instantly creates a color sheetfed scanner inside your printer. Rounding out the new printer offerings, Canon has improved its tri-color, affordable family printer, the new BJC-250, to offer the most cost-efficient Photo Ink printing on the market (estimated street price $179 (a)). The dual-platform, 11x17-inch BJC-4550 and the unique BJC-620, which offers the only individual ink tank system for unbeatable color printing cost efficiency, will continue in the 1997 line-up. All new Canon Bubble Jet printers will ship with Canon's unique Canon Creative software. This third generation of Canon's software strategy offers applications which are photo-centric and is a Web-aware product with automatic content upgrades when linked to the Internet. "Canon is known for pushing the technology envelope in the printing world," said Peter Bergman This article is about the soap opera actor. For the Firesign Theatre member, see Peter Bergman (comedian). Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is a three time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actor. , CCSI's vice president of marketing and customer care. "We delivered the industry's first Photo Inks last year -- six months before the competition. Today, we go to the next level with our second generation of photo-quality Bubble Jets -- matching the quality you would expect from silver halide A silver halide is one of the compounds formed between silver and one of the halogens — silver bromide (AgBr), chloride (AgCl) and iodide (AgI). As a group, they are often referred to as the silver halides, and are often given the pseudo-chemical notation AgX. film. And, we've proven that basing print quality on dpi alone is a fallacy -- our new technologies go beyond mere dpi to deliver the best photo quality in the industry." BJC-7000 Sets New Standard in Printing Excellence with Plain Paper Optimized Printing or P-POP P-POP Plain-Paper Optimized Printing (also seen as PPOP) The BJC-7000 is an important technology breakthrough for the ink jet world. Its exclusive seven-color system combines Canon's proprietary ink formulation of low density Photo Inks with regular density inks to create Bi-level Ink printing with nine levels of gradation -- more than four times the gradation levels of ink jet printers See inkjet printer. in its class. This new dual-head system is achieved with an innovative printhead design which houses more than 1,000 nozzles that are half the size of previous nozzles. As a result, the density of nozzles on the printhead is almost twice as great as previous Bubble Jet models. In addition, Canon has created one of the most significant and relevant technology feats in the color ink jet industry -- exclusive Plain Paper Optimized Printing or simply, P-POP. P-POP achieves the highest quality black, color and photo printing on plain paper. By pioneering the development of a clear liquid solvent, Ink Optimizer, Canon's BJC-7000 "pre-coats" the plain paper where photo ink or standard ink will be placed. In the dual printhead design, Ink Optimizer is housed with black ink in a separate printhead. Milliseconds before color ink is ejected, the clear Ink Optimizer is placed on the paper, acting as a primer to capture the color ink and keep it from bleeding or feathering The appearance of jagged edges on moving objects in an interlaced display. Also known as "combing," this artifact is created because the image moves from one video field (odd lines displayed) to the next video field (even lines filled in while odd lines still present). into the porous plain paper. This allows for the only Bi-level Ink printing on plain paper and in addition, keeps the printed output 100 percent water resistant in both black and color -- something no other ink jet printer can do. It also creates superior smooth, sharp edges and high density black text printing. In addition, P-POP provides a significant cost advantage to customers by not requiring specialty paper for high-quality color printing. Another first for the BJC-7000 is edge-to-edge printing. In addition to printing on paper stock that is postcard size (4x6 inches) up to letter size (8.5 by 11 inches), with Canon's new specialty paper, LetterPlus, which is 9 by 13.3 inches with a perforated per·fo·ra·ted adj. Pierced with one or more holes. area, the BJC-7000 can print an entire area measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. This is ideal for small business and home office users who want to create and print their own letterhead and brochures. The printer also prints on a variety of other paper stocks, including Glossy Photo Paper, High Gloss Photo Film, Canon's T-shirt Transfers and fabric. The BJC-7000 is a 1200 x 600 dpi printer with a footprint measuring 18.3 inches wide by 13.5 inches deep and 8.6 inches high and weighs 13.1 pounds. The BJC-7000 will ship with Canon Creative 3 in October with an estimated street price of $449 (a). "While other companies have introduced one trick ponies -- niche products which can do only one task -- our BJC-7000 is a thoroughbred that can go the distance in many areas, " said Bergman. "We offer brilliant photographic quality seven-color printing, unbeatable plain paper printing and exceptional black text printing -- all of it water-resistant. No one else can claim superiority in all these areas with one printer." Canon's BJC-4304 Photo Includes Drop Modulation Technology and the Ability to Become A Color Sheetfed Scanner with the New Color Image Scanner Cartridge The BJC-4304 Photo offers new surprises and print quality achievement for Canon's SOHOME (small office/home) customers. Continuing to build upon Canon's pursuit of photo-quality printing Photo quality printing is the ultra high resolution reproduction of digital artwork onto printable materials such as paper, vinyl, film, polyester, etc. Technical process , the BJC-4304 Photo offers a new printing innovation, Drop Modulation Technology. A new printhead design allows the BJC-4304 Photo to heat one or two heaters, creating a regular (two heater) or smaller sized (one heater) micro drop that is placed in the same scan line with the same printhead. This precision printing system creates greater tonal expression and smoother transition between colors. The results are proof that print quality can be enhanced without increasing the resolution of the system. The BJC-4304 Photo offers Photo Inks standard, 720 x 360 dpi resolution and a fast five pages per minute print speed in monochrome printing. It weighs 7.7 pounds and measures 15.1 inches wide by 11.5 inches deep by 7.5 inches high. The printer is shipping now with Canon Creative 3 at an estimated street price of $239 (a). "The BJC-4304 Photo is a shining example of how to dramatically improve print quality without increasing the dpi of the system," continued Bergman. "Drop Modulation Technology improves upon Photo Ink and standard ink printing for brilliant new photographic detail." The BJC-4304 Photo also achieves something no other ink jet printer can do -- it can instantly become a color sheetfed scanner. By replacing the printhead with the revolutionary Color Image Scanner Cartridge (IS-22), an optional miniaturized scanhead no bigger than a matchbox, the BJC-4304 Photo becomes a 360 dpi, 24-bit color scanner. Consumers can simply place a photograph or other image into the paper tray, scan the image, replace the scanner cartridge with the regular or photo printhead cartridge and print one or numerous copies of the image. Since there is no SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. cable to hook-up or system compatibility issues, the scanhead takes the difficulty and dread out of scanning images. The Color Image Scanner Cartridge, billed as the "world's smallest scanner," is shipping now at an estimated street price of $99 (a), making it almost half the price of standalone color sheetfed scanners. "The option of the Color Image Scanner Cartridge provides what no other printer company can -- instead of buying an expensive multi-unit system for importing and printing images, our customers get a fast, easy input and output solution in one small desktop package with amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. results," said Bergman. "Our new scanhead option coupled with the BJC-4304 Photo will bring scanning to the masses." Canon's Award-Winning Bubble Jet Printer Line BJC-250 In addition to the BJC-7000 and BJC-4304 Photo, CCSI will also introduce the new BJC-250. At an estimated street price of $179 (a), the BJC-250 offers photo-realistic color printing anyone can afford. The BJC-250 also provides budget-minded families and students quick, laser-like black and white printing, producing 720 x 360 dpi monochrome output at up to four pages per minute (ppm) with the optional BC-02 cartridge. The BJC-250 measures 14.2 inches wide by 6.8 inches high by 8.5 inches deep and weighs only 5.5 pounds. This printer is also shipped with Canon's newest version of Canon Creative which is now fully Web-aware and allows consumers to quickly produce photo-quality results. This latest edition to Canon's award-winning BJC-200 series also features banner printing up to six pages long for decorations or special occasions. BJC-620, BJC-4550 In addition to the three new printers, Canon's award-winning BJC-620 and BJC-4550, introduced in August 1996, will remain in the 1997 line-up of Color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color Bubble Jet printers providing PhotoRealism photorealism, international art movement of the late 1960s and 70s that stressed the precise rendering of subject matter, often taken from actual photographs or painted with the aid of slides. , the new gold standard for image, color and text quality. Available for an estimated street price of $329 (a), the BJC-620 is the only printer in its price class to offer Canon's unique money-saving individual ink tank system, which allows users to replace only the color (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) needed. The BJC-4550 is the only large format (11 x 17-inch) and dual-platform color printer A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. available for less than $500. At an estimated street price of $499 (a), Canon's first dual-platform (Windows and Macintosh) printer is ideal for graphics artists, engineers, architects and other professionals 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. a cost-effective personal B-sized printer. The BJC-4550 is now available through a special distributor promotion with Adobe PostScript Level II software. In addition to PostScript, the Windows software kit includes AutoCAD DOS drivers and Squiggle See tilde. by Insight Development, an application which views and prints HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) A vector graphics file format from HP that was developed as a standard plotter language. Most plotters support the HPGL and DMPL standards. and HPGL/2 -- the most popular file formats in the CAD market. Building on the success of its predecessors, Canon Creative 3 takes consumers to a new level of creativity by drawing from a variety of Internet and desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, applications. The third generation of Canon Creative enables users to quickly and easily produce photo-quality results, whether for a small business, home office or family use. Canon Creative 3 further enhances Canon's commitment to PhotoRealism, through full support of photos and image content in all applications. Canon Creative's popularity stems from its ease-of-use and versatility. The Canon Creative ImageStrip allows users to view and share images within Canon Creative or between any Windows 95 application. Users simply drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. desired images into applications such as Canon's own Design Essentials, a color desktop publishing application that offers more than 90 easy-to-use templates, to create personalized brochures, newsletters, business cards and stationery, postcards and T-shirt designs. Canon Creative 3 allows consumers who are Web-savvy and those who are not to take full advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. This two-disc CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). set is fully Web-aware, providing consumers with Internet access See how to access the Internet. and essential utilities like Canon's unique WebRecord. And now, Canon Creative makes it even easier for users to stay up-to-date on the most recent revisions to software by offering free downloadable program updates, such as new print drivers and content, which are sent to your desktop via links to the Web. Canon Creative 3 also offers a variety of family/personal applications such as American Greetings' CreataCard Special Edition application from Micrografx; DogByte Development's ColorStore for stationery, stickers, labels and cards; Norman Rockwell Noun 1. Norman Rockwell - United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978) Rockwell Images from The Saturday Evening Post; comic books This is a listing of comic books. See also List of comic creators. Argentina (historieta)
Warranty and Customer Technical Support For all Bubble Jet printers, CCSI offers customers a one-year limited warranty Limited warranty A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good. , with the InstantExchange warranty program (b), which provides a cost-free replacement unit on the next business-day. In addition, CCSI offers a full range of customer technical support options including: 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, toll-free automated support for basic product troubleshooting issues on most current products; option to speak to a technician free of service charge during regular business days/hours for products under warranty; paid support for urgent product matters during non-regular business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a ; the Canon Computer Systems Inc. Web site and 24-hour, toll-free Fax Retrieval System (c). PhotoRealism -- The New Gold Standard In 1977, Canon invented the drop-on-demand Bubble Jet technology used in more than 30 million printers today. Since then, Canon has earned more than 10,000 patents in Bubble Jet technology alone and currently employs more than 500 engineers developing new advances in this technology. Pioneering color ink jet printing on plain paper, Canon also was the first ink jet printer manufacturer to offer Photo Inks, providing consumers a new level of output quality that continues to improve as technology advances. Whether a customer is printing monochrome text, color graphs or photographic images, Canon's PhotoRealism products offer a new level of quality by which all other printers will be judged. About CCSI Canon Computer Systems Inc. (CCSI) is a subsidiary of both Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, NY) and Canon Inc. (Tokyo). The company, with headquarters in Costa Mesa, was founded in 1992 to market Canon-branded computer peripheral products in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , including Color Bubble Jet printers, and Photo Inks, the MultiPASS line of Canon Convertible printers, FAXPHONE facsimile machines, PowerShot digital cameras, Canon Creative and WebRecord Internet printing software. CCSI is uniquely positioned to offer both home and small office consumers true PhotoRealism -- the new gold standard in computer input and output quality -- based on its technological heritage in optical imaging and color printing. Customers are reached via the mass market channel -- a network of computer dealers, superstores and mass merchants. For more information, customers can call 1-800/848-4123 or visit the CCSI Web site at www.ccsi.canon.com. Canon will also unveil its latest Web site, photorealism.com in early August. Canon, celebrating its 60-year anniversary, is recognized as the world's largest computer printer manufacturer, a leader in imaging technology and a top worldwide patent holder. As a global technology leader, Canon achieved $22 billion in worldwide sales in 1996. -0- (a) Prices are estimates only at time materials created. Prices subject to change at any time. Actual prices are determined by individual dealers and may vary. (b) InstantExchange warranty program is subject to certain restrictions and limitations. See warranty card for full details. (c) Support program specifics subject to change without notice. CONTACT: Canon Computer Systems Inc. Sherri Snelling, 1-714/438-3075 pr@ccsi.canon.com or Golin/Harris Communications Jennifer Boggs/Valencia Walker 1-213/623-4200, ext. 706/769 jboggs@golinharris.com vwalker@golinharris.com |
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