Canon to showcase C700 at Print Miracle

The Print Miracle Expo from 12 to 14 December 2014 in Kochi will have Canon​ display the C700 Imagepress. This is the official "public" launch of the press. Although there was a launch of the ImagePress C800 series, comprising the C700 and C800. This was in September 2014 for 125 Canon customers at the Hyatt Regency in Gurgaon.

27 Nov 2014 | By Samir Lukka

The Canon C700 new colour production cutsheet presses features a new toner, laser imaging and colour calibration technology, according to Puneet Datta, the director, professional printing products, "Will bridge the gap between Canon's imageRunner C9000 series, which has a duty cycle of 350,000 A4 pages and a maximum speed of 80ppm, and the imagePress C6011S, which has a duty cycle of 700,000 pages and prints up to 61.7ppm."

The C700 runs at 70ppm and has a duty cycle of 400,000 pages.

According to a Canon team member, "The two C700 can print on a wide variety of media, including uneven media such as textured or recycled substrates, from 52-300gsm (or up to 220gsm without any speed reduction)."

With the C700, Canon hopes to grow at a healthy double digit. And "capture 30% of the digital print market share in India."

The Kerala Master Printers Association are co-hosts of the Print Miracle show - and have lined up a variety of conferences and seminars during the three-day exposition with the two-pronged intention of educating the print fraternity of Kerala and complementing the tradeshow.