The OEM has reached a momentous goal by installing more than 1,000 “continuous feed inkjet printers”.
PrintWeek reported that the company had reached its “milestone” of over 1,000 “since it began […] in 2008”. The announcement was made at the company’s annual Commercial Printing Business Day in Munich where Christian Unterberger, Executive Vice President of Commercial Printing, addressed the attendees and said “We are delighted to have now installed 1,000 continuous-feed inkjet units worldwide so far.
“This is the sixth year in a row we are the number one in continuous-feed printing globally. When you talk about products, it is realistically the ColorStream that is leading the market, and the 6000 is really the product that is going to continue to do this. What we really want to achieve is to show we can unfold communication power in terms of print.”
He told the audience that the Drupa launch of the Oce ColorStream 6000 and the Chromera Inks had done well and had “strong sales” and that Canon had reached its “show sales target” for the 100ppm imagePRESS C10000VP after only three days.
PrintWeek spoke exclusively to Canon Vice President of Strategy and Alliances, Crit Driessen who said that two US customers had ordered “multiple machines” and also said that “Canon customers with ColorStream 3000 models” will be able to “upgrade” when shipping commences in 2017.
“There is a very high interest, we cannot go to market quickly enough. What is very important for all our customers is investment protection. As a commercial printer, you don’t want to invest in a machine that is obsolete three years later, so it is very important that our ColorStream 3000 customers can upgrade their platform to all the features of the 6000.
“The 6000 is a new platform and with production becoming more mature year after year, print quality and media flexibility requirements increase, and the new Chromera ink takes a very important step in increasing colour gamuts on multiple media.”
Speaking about the milestone Driessen said “We have the most continuous-feed production inkjet units installed compared to the competition and are twice the size of the nearest competitor.
“What’s very important next to the units is the amount of pages you print on the devices. Since we entered this business in 2008, customers have now printed 200bn A4 equivalent pages on our continuous-feed devices.”