Wide Format Imaging

Canon USA Inc. has announced its imagePROGRAF iPF710, iPF8000S, and iPF9000S wide-format printers have been honored with BERTL's BEST Awards for Spring 2008. In addition, the imagePROGRAF iPF6100 and iPF8000S received four star-ratings from BERTL, for their multiple assets, including high color fidelity and speed.

For the BERTL's BEST Awards, BERTL analysts evaluated hundreds of devices in the digital imaging and document arena to determine the products that stand out in the marketplace as exceptional offerings. BERTL conducts intensive testing on the printers to ascertain how well devices meet criteria within 11 categories—Build Quality, Network Administration, Security, Workflow, Finish, Ease of Use, Media Handling, Printing, Image Quality, Features, and Price—and give them a rating. Both the imagePROGRAF iPF6100 and iPF8000S models received more than four stars in at least four of the categories, and more than three stars in all categories.

"Canon is proud to have its imagePROGRAF large format printer line recognized by an industry authority such as BERTL," said Jim Rosetta, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon USA. "These awards and the high ratings from the BERTL analysts recognize the features and functionality of our imagePROGRAF models and the tremendous value that these solutions provide to users."

The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF710 printer features the Company's five-color dye/pigment Reactive Ink system, enabling them to produce black lines and texts that have a resistance against rubbing, moisture and bleeding of intersecting lines. This results in sharp lines as thin as 0.02mm and high-density black for CAD line drawings, as well as vivid colors and solid image consistency with sharp text for superb signs and posters for general office use.

The imagePROGRAF iPF710 model also utilizes Canon's L-COA image processor to instantly interpret advanced image-algorithms for incredible print speeds. The combination of the L-COA image processor and Reactive ink technology help to rapidly produce crisp and clear text and precise, intricately detailed line drawings while retaining line accuracy at ±0.1 percent. The new iPF610 is capable of creating an A1/D-sized print (23.4 × 33.1-inches) in just 31 seconds on plain paper in fast mode while the iPF710 can produce A0/E-sized output (33.1 × 46.8-inches) in only 55 seconds on plain paper in fast mode, all in full color.