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Printing Group
Safe, secure, and convenient prints — anytime, anywhere, the way you want
The value of printing in a digital society
Despite the advances in our digital society, the value of paper in thought processes, collaborations, and enjoyment of life has not changed. Paper remains a foundation for human intellectual activities.
Canon developed, from the ground up, electrophotography and inkjet: the two major digital printing technologies. Since then, the company has engineered cyber-physical systems, a term that describes the fusion of high-performance hardware and advanced software. These systems are bringing about a society in which printing can be done safely, securely, and conveniently, anytime, anywhere, the way you want — whether at home, in the office, or even at commercial printers.
Spearheading the digital shift in commercial and industrial printing
Commercial printers print items like books, catalogs, posters, direct mailings, and forms. The field is shifting to digital from analog offset presses, once the mainstay of the industry. Digital printing is advantageous because of variable printing — changing printed matter on a per-page basis — and for the environmental benefits of avoiding volatile organic compounds.
Canon Inc. and Netherlands-based Canon Production Printing work closely together to develop high-resolution, high-speed sheet-fed printers, continuous feed printers, and other digital commercial printers as well as large-format printers for posters and technical drawings.
Canon has also entered the industrial printing field for labels, packaging, and similar materials. The company provides a range of products to meet industrial printers' needs, such as a newly developed label printer that uses a proprietary white ink to print labels with vivid colors.
Helping offices go digital
Expectations for digital transformation (DX) are mounting in every industry. Office multifunction devices (OMDs) are pushing DX forward as well. Canon OMDs help automate and streamline office workflows by combining high-performance hardware, designed with usability and energy efficiency in mind, with security technologies, technologies that collect, process, analyze, and apply data, and other advanced software technologies. Furthermore, Canon services seamlessly unify OMDs with the cloud to further propel full-scale office DX.
Addressing all home printing needs
Home printing occasions are on the rise as more people work from home. Canon provides the same secure printing environments at home as in the office by extending the print management technology found on its OMDs. To meet the many home printing needs that make work or studying more efficient and add enjoyment to life, Canon offers an extensive lineup of home printers, including inkjet printers with large ink tanks as well as compact laser printers and mobile printers.
Always on the cutting edge of eco-conscious design — energy efficiency, compactness, recyclability
Canon was a trailblazer in taking action to cut CO2 emissions from printers and conserve resources. For example, the company developed on-demand toner fixing technology in the early 1990s that powers the heating element only while printing, which dramatically reduced the energy consumption of copiers. Canon also started collecting and recycling toner cartridges for the near-universal laser printers in an era when disposable cartridges were the norm. Moreover, the technologies accumulated as an environmental leader, such as remanufacturing* OMDs, are an important component of Canon's Green Platform.
Canon is still at the forefront of CO2 reductions and resource recycling, with efforts like reducing the size of laser printers and saving energy by developing low-melting point toner.
- * Refers to disassembling, refurbishing, and reassembling used products with same-as-new quality
Printing Group main products:
Digital continuous feed presses / Digital sheet-fed presses / Large format printers / Office multifunction devices (MFDs) / Document solutions / Laser multifunction printers (MFPs) / Laser printers / Inkjet printers / Image scanners / Calculators and more
