New technologies for home and office.

At Canon Latin America, new technologies are bringing more advanced features to both office and home users in the region. For example, the recently introduced BJC-6000 color bubble jet printer offers the most sought-after features for business and personal printing.

It combines fast print speeds, high-resolution color and laser-quality black output with a unique individual tank system for unmatched operational savings.

The Canon BJC-6000 produces up to five pages per minute color pages and crisp, speedy monochrome output at eight ppm. Print resolution is 1440 by 720 dpi. In addition, the printer includes an intuitive individual color ink cartridge design that eliminates waste by letting the user replace only the color of ink that has run out.

"The BJC-6000 is unbeatable in price and performance," notes Shinichi Nakamura, assistant general manager, printer division, Canon Latin America.

For the corporate setting, Canon has just made available to Latin America a completely new generation of digital multifunction products (MFPs), which provide the highest finishing, duty cycle and image quality in their respective market segments. The imageRUNNER line includes the following:

* The imageRUNNER 3305/GP305 and imageRUNNER 400/GP405 systems are offered in both standalone copier configurations and network-connected configurations that offer copying, network printing, faxing and an automatic document feeder as standard. They are designed for document throughput, enterprise-wide access and management and network resources conservation. Their high-performance connectivity. device driver software and document finishing capabilities set new parameters for the marketplace.

* The imageRUNNER 600/GP605 Digital Production System is a 80ppm unit built on the most robust engine platform every offered by Canon. It is specifically targeted for the needs of corporate copying and distributed printing, central reprographic departments, print-on-demand and print-for-pay markets. In setting the industry performance stand, the unit can copy and print at 1200 x 600 dpi resolution with 256 gradations of gray per dot, the highest available in its class.

Canon is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging systems and solutions. The company employs more than 11,000 people at more than 30 facilities throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.