The Xerox/Canon Showdown

Jump to February, 2003: Xerox goes head-to-head with Canon with the release of the Xerox 3535, pushing 35 ppm in either black and white or color.

Until that late-winter release, Canon counted Xerox's DocuColor 2045 as its toughest competition for the sought-after in-plant dollar. But Mark Suzuki, director and assistant general manager for Canon's color systems division, contends, "Color [quality] put us over the top."