Canon U.S.A. Reinforces Channel Effort With Expanded Product Offerings, New Lower Pricing, and Low Cost-Per-Page; Growing Reseller Channel To Offer New Canon Products.Business & Technology Editors LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 Canon U.S.A., Inc., the company whose imaging solutions give people Know How, announced today the availability of two additional multifunction imageCLASS products and three document scanners An optical scanner geared to office documents rather than photographs. Also called "office scanners," "enterprise scanners" and "business scanners," desktop models have automatic document feeders that can scan in the range of approximately 15 to 100 pages per minute. for distribution, along with a substantially lower price for the imageCLASS C2100 color laser printer/copier series. "Canon is pleased to announce the availability of these products to our expanding distribution channels," said Tracie Sokol, director and general manager, Printer and MFP (MultiFunction Printer, MultiFunction Peripheral) See all-in-one and MFD. Division, Canon U.S.A. Imaging Systems Group. "With the addition of these products, and the lower price of the flagship imageCLASS C2100, a wider range of customers will be able to purchase our products through their reseller of choice." Available now is the new imageCLASS 1100 (see related Canon press release dated 4/3/00), a "Five in One" 6 ppm laser printer, Super G3 laser fax, PC fax, scanner and convenience copier. To be made available in May 2000 through Canon's reseller channel is the Better Buys for Business Editor's Choice award winner imageCLASS 2200, a 16 page-per-minute (ppm) advanced multifunction digital imaging system, which builds upon Canon's platen-cover copier heritage. Supporting paper sizes up to 11" x 17", the imageCLASS 2200 offers copying, network printing and faxing options. Both products are targeted at the SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and Small Workgroup markets. Also available for distribution are three versatile document scanners. The DR-5020 is a versatile 90ppm duplex (communications) duplex - Used to describe a communications channel that can carry signals in both directions, in contrast to a simplex channel which only ever carries a signal in one direction. black and white scanner handling documents up to 11" X 17". The DR-5080C incorporates all the features of the DR-5020 with the additional capabilities 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 and high-speed color scanning. The third scanner is the DR-4080U which offers the versatility of flatbed scanning or Automatic Document Feeding (ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. ). Additionally, Canon USA announced new pricing up to 20 percent less for the imageCLASS C2100 color laser printer/copier series. The base printer model is Ethernet-ready, and now available at a suggested retail price of $6,850 and an expected street price of $5,400. The imageCLASS C2100 PD, which adds a 2,000 sheet paper deck and automatic duplexing over the base model, has a new suggested retail price of $8,950 and an expected street price of $7,100. The imageCLASS C2100 CS (the copier model) which adds a copy station reader over the base C2100 model, has a suggested retail price of $13,495. In addition to the new, lower price, Canon's color printers 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. enjoy a cost-per-page advantage against competitors, thanks to a combination of high yield Canon toner An electrically charged ink used in copy machines and laser printers. It adheres to an invisible image that has been charged with the opposite polarity onto a plate or drum or onto the paper itself. cartridges and low toner consumption controller technology. "In our testing of documents with high toner coverage, cost-per-page of the imageCLASS C2100 can be less than half that of competitive products," said David Spencer David Spencer (b.1963) in Moncton, New Brunswick. (Father Bill Spencer; mother Jean Spencer). Mr. Spencer was a university dropout who moved to Vancouver in the 1980s where he found work at an alternate radio station. , president of SpencerLab Digital Color Laboratory, an independent, industry-leading laboratory. The imageCLASS C2100, a B-size printer (12" X 18.5"), produces 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) full color output at 6 ppm and 24 ppm in black and white, including automatic duplex capability. It supports genuine Adobe Postcript3 and PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. 5c emulation, and comes standard with 10/100 Ethernet connectivity. The imageCLASS C2100 received a 1999 Better Buys for Business Editor's Choice award for its strong feature set and versatility. Unlike similar products in the market, Canon's imageCLASS C2100 printer is upgradeable to the copier version at any time and has many customary copier options including 7-bin sorter, image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. , a control card system and additional paper capacity (1,100 sheets standard and 3,100 sheets maximum). The imageCLASS C2100 features various media capabilities such as Canon branded glossy film, transparencies & tee-shirt transfer material along with standard envelopes and laser capable labels. The imageCLASS products and document scanners, as with other Canon products  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , are available through national distributors. Resellers wishing to inquire about reselling Canon products (including printers, copiers, MFP's and document scanners) may call Canon USA at 800-556-6321 or visit Canon's reseller website, www.isgprinterpartner.com for more information. Canon U.S.A., Inc. is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging solutions and, through its parent company, Canon Inc., 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 South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the Caribbean. 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