Canon Named BLI’s 2014 Wide Format Graphic Arts Printer Line of the Year
Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), has selected Canon as the winner of its 2014 Wide Format Graphic Arts Printer Line of the Year award thanks to the overall strength of Canon’s imagePROGRAF graphic arts product line. BLI’s coveted Line of the Year is awarded once a year to the vendors whose product lines are determined to be the best overall in their respective categories based on their cumulative test results in BLI’s rigorous two-month evaluation. For wide format devices, among the many factors considered are reliability, image quality, ease of use, color management, productivity and connectivity attributes. Also considered are the breadth of the manufacturer’s line and its ability to produce quality products suitable to a broad spectrum of customer needs.
Canon’s 8- and 12-Color Models Deliver Innovation, Precise Color Accuracy and Control
The comprehensiveness of Canon’s offerings, satisfying the production/proofing print markets with the 8-color models and the high-end graphics markets with the 12-color models, across all the common size ranges, together with the outstanding lab performance of all the models tested, have justly earned Canon the 2014 Line of the Year award for its wide format graphic arts printers. Indeed, every Canon graphic arts model tested in the past year has earned BLI’s Highly Recommended rating and a Pick award.
In the past year Canon has updated its 8- and 12-color wide format printers, adding several noteworthy features such as an optional spectrophotometer and Canon’s Direct Print & Share cloud portal solution. Among the new 8-color units (designated by an S in the model name) BLI has tested are the 24-inchimagePROGRAF iPF6400S and 44-inch iPF8400S, both of which performed extremely well in BLI testing and were selected BLI Picks in their respective categories. Though not tested, the larger 60-inchimagePROGRAF iPF9400S, released earlier in the season, differs mainly in its width and could therefore be expected to deliver a similarly high quality performance. These stellar performers are joined in Canon’s graphic arts line by several outstanding 12-color printers. Those include two 24-inch models—theimagePROGRAF iPF6450, a BLI Pick winner last year, and the very similar iPF6400. These models are also offered in 44- and 60-inch configurations—the iPF8400 and iPF9400, respectively.
To find out more about why Canon was selected as the winner of its 2014 Wide Format Graphic Arts Printer Line of the Year award, read the press release.
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Canon Achieves a Clean Sweep with Wide Format Printer Pick Awards
Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent authority on document imaging products, has announced its prestigious Pick awards in the wide format category, with honors going to three Canon devices. An excellent source of guidance to buyers, BLI’s Pick awards acknowledge the products that gave the best performances in BLI’s extensive suite of laboratory tests. While the Picks for most product categories are announced twice a year in January and July, the wide format awards are announced annually at this time of year.
The wide format Pick winners are:
CANON U.S.A., INC.
Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6400S
Outstanding 24" 8-Color Wide Format Graphic Arts Printer
Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8400S
Outstanding 44" 8-Color Wide Format Graphic Arts Printer
Canon imagePROGRAF iPF765 MFP M40
Outstanding Color Wide Format Technical MFP
To find out more about why these Canon devices were selected as the Wide Format Printer Pick Award winners, read the press release.