Canon Hosts Digital Solutions Forum

Earlier this week, Canon U.S.A. held its Digital Solutions Forum in Chicago to show how customers and partners are putting Canon technology to use to solve business challenges.

As part of the forum, which featured interactive product displays and seminars, Canon introduced the Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series, featuring advanced print engine technology, superior paper-handling and professional finishing options. It prints up to 51 pages per minute for both color and black-and-white letter-sized documents and has a 5,000-sheet paper capacity. Its Single-Pass Duplexing Automatic Document Feeder scans both sides of originals simultaneously at up to 100 ipm at 300 dpi.

Canon says it intends to revolutionize digital production printing, starting with last year’s introduction of the imagePRESS C7000VP (shipping this month) and imagePRESS C1 digital presses. The company introduced the imagePRESS Essential Business Builder program, a step-by-step approach to help printers develop the right “go-to-market” strategy for their new imagePRESS C7000VP digital press.

Canon also showed a number of hardware and software applications and tools as part of a total digital production solution. In addition, the company introduced two new large format substrates for its imagePROGRAF large format printers as well as two new media options for Canon imageRUNNER MFPs and imagePRESS digital production presses.

Canon recently reached another milestone with the sale of its 1,000,000th digital color copier.