Canon Now Shipping MultiPASS C3000 Convertible Printer, the Industry's Only Photo-Realistic Printing MFP.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)--Aug. 25, 1997--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 that it is now shipping the MultiPASS C3000, a color Bubble Jet printer/facsimile/copier/scanner/PC fax multifunction device, which, using Canon's exclusive Photo Inks, delivers the industry's only photo-realistic printing MFP (MultiFunction Printer, MultiFunction Peripheral) See all-in-one and MFD. . The MultiPASS C3000 Canon Convertible printer, Canon's second generation color MFP, is the follow-up to the MultiPASS C2500, the market's top-selling MFP model in 1996, according to market analysts at International Data Corp. The MultiPASS C3000 offers state-of-the-art performance based on Canon's award-winning 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 technology for an estimated street price of $449 (a). This compact unit offers photo-realistic output at 720 x 360 dots per inch (dpi) on a variety of papers, as well as up to five-pages-per-minute (ppm) monochrome printing speed and up to two-pages-per-minute color printing speed. When using the optional Photo Inks, customers can achieve true photographic printing with better contrast, less 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. , brilliant colors. Users also can take advantage of the straight paper path designed for more effective paper handling. The plain-paper fax function offers the same state-of-the-art features to those found on Canon's stand-alone facsimile machines, which have been the best-selling plain paper facsimile product seven of the last eight years, including 14,400 baud baud (bôd, bōd), measure of the rate at which signals are transmitted over a telecommunications link. It is equivalent to the number of elements or pulses transmitted in one second, e.g. transmission and one-touch faxing. Multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. is made possible by a 42-page (c) memory that can store incoming messages while the unit is performing printing or copying functions (semi-dual access). The MultiPASS C3000 also copies at 360 dpi using Canon's exclusive UHQ UHQ Ultra-High Quality (ultra high quality) and smoothing algorithms. With the MultiPASS C3000's scanning capabilities, home office professionals can scan photos, text logos and line art into their PC for high quality monochrome images up to 400 dpi. This MFP also features 256 levels of grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in for enhanced detail of these scanned images. The MultiPASS C3000 offers superior software, giving home office professionals the tools to produce high quality materials. Canon's Desktop Manager is a key component to the ease-of-use for this device, offering full PC control of all settings and ensuring that initial set-up is very quick and simple. Desktop Manager also provides a new "interactive" installation that helps answer common questions that arise during setup and use. In addition, users can take advantage of the extensive software applications packaged with the MultiPASS C3000, including Canon's Creative Web Solutions with WebRecord, Canon Creative 3 and TextBridge Classic Optical Character Recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. ). Market Growth Since the introduction of the MultiPASS C2500, the first multifunction printer to employ color Bubble Jet printing technology, Canon has remained at the forefront of the MFP market. According to The Hard Copy Observer, "Canon's continued strategy to approach the multifunction world from the printer perspective appears to be a sound one, given the strength of its printers. Canon has jumped forward once again and put a little distance between it and its competition." The strength of Canon's Convertible printers has enabled it to meet the ever-growing needs of the MFP market. Multifunction printers have become one of the top-selling imaging devices sold today, and according to Peripheral Insight (Nashua, N.H.), the demand for products such as the MultiPASS C3000 is predicted to "skyrocket nearly 3000 percent, from 2.2 million in 1995 to over 68 million in 2001" in the marketplace. About CCSI Canon Computer Systems is a subsidiary of both Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, N.Y.) 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, 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 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 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. Canon is recognized as the world's largest computer printer manufacturer, a leader in imaging technology and a top worldwide patent holder. For more information, customers can call 800/848-4123 or visit the CCSI Web site at www.ccsi.canon.com . -0- (a) Prices are estimates only. Actual prices are determined by individual dealers and may vary. (b) Support program specifics subject to change without notice. (c) Based on CCITT See ITU. CCITT - Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993. chart No. 1. CONTACT: Canon Computer Systems Inc. Sherri Snelling/Kristine Skrabski, 714/438-3075/3484 pr@ccsi.canon.com or Golin/Harris Jennifer Boggs/Valencia Walker, 213/623-4200 ext. 769/706 jboggs@golinharris.com vwalker@golinharris.com |
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