Canon U.S.A. Showcases the "Value Behind The Paper" at Its Digital Solutions Forum in Chicago.Canon Celebrates the Anniversary of its First Color Copier and Shipment of its 1,000,000(th) Digital Color Copier with Record-Number of Partners in Chicago CHICAGO -- Showcasing its technologies and offerings that deliver value well beyond the paper, Canon U.S.A., Inc., the nation's overall copier market brand leader(i), today opened its Digital Solutions Forum in Chicago. With interactive product displays and customer seminars, this invitation-only, three-day Canon event puts the spotlight on the Company's award-winning color, production, workflow and service offerings that have helped earn the reputation as the "First in Color." "At this year's Digital Solutions Forum, we will show how our customers and partners are putting Canon technology and innovation to use to solve real business challenges, from the office desktop to production and wide format printing," said Tod Pike pike, in zoology pike, common name for the family Esocidae, freshwater game and food fishes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The pike, the muskellunge, and the pickerel form a small but well-known group of long, thin fishes with spineless dorsal fins, , senior vice president, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. "Canon's color heritage has created a strong foundation that has allowed the Company to lead the market for three decades. Today, Canon remains a market innovator committed to and investing in digital workflow In print publishing, using the computer to lay out text and illustrations prior to creating film negatives for every page or going directly to plate. Prior to digital workflow, the typesetting and pre-press stages were far more time consuming and labor-intensive. solutions, services and technologies that help our dealers and customers efficiently enhance their capabilities and achieve a competitive advantage. With offerings such as the new imagePRESS C7000VP digital press and Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series, we are poised to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the world of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color printing yet again." Canon's Color Heritage: 20 Years of Digital Color and 1,000,000 Digital Color Units Sold Since launching its first color copier 30 years ago in 1977 and its first digital color copier (CLC-1) in 1987, Canon continues to lead the way in technology innovation to become a market leader and a brand name that is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as color. Canon recently reached another milestone in its illustrious il·lus·tri·ous adj. 1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See Synonyms at noted. 2. Obsolete Shining brightly. color history with the sale of its 1,000,000th digital color copier. At the Digital Solutions Forum, Canon further solidifies its position in the color market with the introduction of the Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series. The Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series is designed to transform the way businesses approach and manage their color print output by providing a solution that offers increased functionality with less complexity. With robust functionality, advanced print engine technology, superior paper-handling and professional finishing options, the Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series models are ideal multifunction devices for the office. This new Color imageRUNNER model produces fast output at up to 51 pages-per-minute (ppm (Pages Per Minute) The measurement of printer speed. See gppm. PPM - Portable Pixmap ) for both color and black-and-white letter-sized documents, has top-of-the-line paper-handling capabilities and up to 5,000-sheet paper capacity. The standard 100-sheet Single-Pass Duplexing Automatic Document Feeder In multifunction or all-in-one printers, fax machines, photocopiers and scanners, Automatic Document Feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into the scanner, allowing the user to scan (and thereby copy, print, or fax) on the new Color imageRUNNER devices scans both sides of originals simultaneously at speeds up to 100 images-per-minute (ipm) at 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution, helping to improve document distribution, communication and archiving. Production Printing: Revolutionizing the World of Digital Printing From personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. direct mail pieces to the automated book factory, Canon will demonstrate how the Company intends to revolutionize digital production printing. Last year, Canon put its stake in the ground in the color production market with the introduction of the imagePRESS C7000VP and imagePRESS C1 digital presses. The imagePRESS C7000VP, which will begin shipping to customers in June, is currently installed at several beta sites An organization or group that is beta testing hardware and/or software. See beta test. , including Micropage, a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based commercial printer, and one of the featured speakers at Canon's Digital Solutions Forum. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Brian Boyajian, director, Sales and Marketing, Micropage, "The color accuracy that we are seeing produced by the imagePRESS is excellent and far superior to previous digital presses we have used. When a gallery or design firm has come in and requested offset, we've shown samples run on the imagePRESS and the customer agreed on the quality and asked that we run the job on the imagePRESS over offset. Since March of this year, we have run more than 400 paying jobs on the imagePRESS consisting of more than 410,000 impressions." In addition to its revolutionary production devices, Canon will show a number of hardware and software applications and tools as part of a total digital production solution. Canon's imagePRESS Workflow Solutions Program is a collection of Canon branded and third-party hardware and software solutions that focus on key workflows in production printing environments to maximize efficiencies, and help printers build solutions and grow a profitable digital business. Canon imagePRESS Workflow Solutions demonstrations at the show include: * imagePRESS Technology * Customized Communications * Workflow Integration * Finishing Solutions * Color Management Canon will also be introducing the imagePRESS Essential Business Builder program. The program is a step-by-step approach to help printers develop the right "go-to-market" strategy for their new imagePRESS C7000VP digital press and help them become value-added solutions providers. Later this year, Canon will be making available the imagePRESS Customer Maintenance Program, which will allow customers who have a desire to enhance the productivity and uptime of their imagePRESS C7000VP digital press by providing the training and tools to perform self-service and proactive maintenance Proactive maintenance is a maintenance strategy for stabilizing the reliability of machines or equipment using Proactive maintenance services. Its central theme involves directing corrective actions aimed at failure root causes, not active failure symptoms, faults, or machine wear . Workflow Solutions: Enhancing Communications and Adding Value In addition to the imagePRESS Workflow Solutions Program, Canon will demonstrate a number of its own imageWARE branded applications that will complement almost any workflow. The imageWARE applications on display at the show include: * imageWARE Document Manager * imageWARE Scan Manager * imageWARE Accounting Manager and Account Manager for MEAP MEAP Manning Early Access Program MEAP Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform MEAP Michigan Education Assessment Program MEAP Maryland Energy Assistance Program MEAP Minority Ethnic Achievement Project (UK) * imageWARE Publishing Manager * imageWARE Prepress Manager * imageWARE Secure Audit Manager * imageWARE Enterprise Management Console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. * imageWARE Remote Canon's breadth of software offerings delivers the most comprehensive capabilities of any manufacturer in addressing customer needs in the areas of document creation, distribution and management. In addition, the Canon software delivers key monitoring and service automation that can help dramatically reduce a customer's total cost of ownership. Canon Services: Adding "New" Value To help users take full advantage of their Canon hardware and software solutions, Canon also offers a broad range of print and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Canon's services are provided directly to customers and are designed to assist customers in maximizing workflow efficiencies in connection with their investments in Canon and non-Canon technology. They include: * Managed Print Services * Remote Network/Device Management * Service Automation * Print and Workflow Assessment * Data Capture and Conversion * Security Services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the * Customer Software Design * Turnkey Implementation Offerings Canon and its Partners: Creating Winning Solutions Canon works with a variety of partners to create winning solutions for customers. This year, Canon will have a record-number of partners participating in the Digital Solutions Forum. Among the areas in which Canon and its partners will be demonstrating solutions are: * Customized MEAP Solutions * Forms Management * Enterprise Printing * Document Distribution * Digital Rights Management and Security * Cost Recovery About Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is on the 2006 BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company, 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) ), is a top patent holder of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S. in 2006+, with global revenues of $34.9 billion. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/pressroom. (i) Source - Gartner Dataquest, February 2007 (+)IFI IFI International Financial Institutions (IMF, World Bank, etc.) IFI Institutt For Informatikk (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo) IFI Industrial Fasteners Institute Patent Intelligence, January 11, 2007 All referenced product names, and other marks, are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Prices, availability and specifications subject to change without notice. Actual prices set by individual dealers and may vary. |
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