Canon opens a new cartridge-manufacturing plant

On May 1, Canon opened a new $640 million cartridge-manufacturing facility in Oyster Point, Virginia, USA, that will bring 1,000 jobs to the region by 2013.

The 700,000-square-foot building is finished but will not start operations until the end of the year or early 2010, Rhonda Bunn, a spokeswoman for Canon Virginia, said Thursday. Equipment will be installed from May to October and then tested for several weeks, she said.

Canon, she said, promised to hire 1,000 workers for the facility by 2013. It already has hired 250. Canon has been in Newport News for 23 years and employed about 1,500 people before the expansion.

The printing company chose Newport News for the expansion because "Canon wants to build products in the region near the consumer," Bunn said.

The laser-cartridge facility is the largest piece of Canon Virginia's expansion, one of the state's biggest economic-development coups in recent years.

Source: www.hamptonroads.com

Key words: Canon, plant, cartridge manufacturing

Canon’s fall in profit

Japan's Canon reported an 88 percent fall in quarterly profit, hit by slumping demand for copiers and printers. Demand for office machines and their supplies such as toner cartridges remained weak as the global financial crisis made the replacement cycle of copiers and printers longer and prompted corporate clients not to use them as heavily as before.

Canon, whose other competitors include Xerox and Ricoh, earlier this month delayed the construction of a toner cartridge components plant in western Japan for a second time, underscoring weak demand.
But Canon's overseas sales have been boosted by softer-than-expected yen. The company also said it would aim to cut 172 billion yen in costs this year, 60 billion yen more than originally planned.

Source: www.reuters.com

Key words: Canon, market, profit, crisis

A new color photo printer from Canon

This week Canon U.S.A. Inc announced a new addition to its line of compact photo printers: the SELPHY CP780. This new SELPHY compact photo printer is ideal for the parent who wants to share images of their children with family and friends.


The Canon SELPHY CP780 compact photo printer is designed not only to be easy-to-use and convenient to carry, it is also available in three different color variations. To coincide with the new Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS Digital ELPH camera also announced this week, this compact photo printer is available in silver, blue and pink to enable consumers to express their own personal style.

The new Canon SELPHY compact photo printer will produce images of a higher quality than previous models due to enhancements to the Portrait Image Optimize feature. The printing process was also revised so that a 4 x 6-inch print can now be completed in approximately 47 seconds. The card slots allow users to plug in memory cards or print straight from the camera with a USB cord.

Designed with a new wave-shaped top surface, the SELPHY CP780 compact photo printer comes equipped with a 2.5-inch LCD screen, making it easy to review images and navigate through menus from various angles.

The Canon SELPHY CP780 compact photo printer carries an estimated retail price of $100.

Source: Canon USA

Key words: Canon, Selphy, printer, photo

New all-in-One Pixma inkjets from Canon

Canon added two new modes to its office all-in-one lineup. The Pixma MX860 and Pixma MX330 combine color inkjet printing with copying, scanning, and fax capability and a flock of convenience features.

Priced at USD200, the MX860 includes automatic duplex copying, printing, and two-way paper feeding, for two-sided copying or scanning of letter-sized documents without the need to flip and re-feed pages. The unit can also scan and print at the same time during copying jobs and combines 802.11b/g wireless with Ethernet and USB connectivity for multi-PC sharing.


Pixma MX850 - the model previous to MX860

The USD 110 Pixma MX330 features slightly lower scan and print resolution, with a four-color, two-cartridge ink system and a 1.8- instead of 2.5-inch color LCD control panel. In addition, the MX330 offers an Auto Scan Mode that recognizes the type of document being scanned so it can be saved quickly in the right format; the ability to save scanned JPG and PDF data directly to a flash drive or memory card; and Auto Photo Fix red-eye correction and brightness and contrast optimization.


Pixma MX310 - the model previous to MX330

Source: Hardwarecentral.com.

Key words: Canon, technology, inks, printer

Refill kit for Canon BJ5, BJ10, BJ20, BJ30

Source: http://www.daascom.com

Canon stimulates sales of its photo printers SELPHY in Russia

To stimulate sales of its new photo printers SELPHY, Canon (Canon Nort-East Oy) started a competition for buyers of Canon photo printers in July and August, 2007.



The rules are as follows:

>> to buy a SELPHY photo printer in July and August;
>> to get registered at the web site: www.competition.canon.ru;
>> to present the numbers of the warranty document for the product;
>> to comment or give an original name for the above picture (each month the picture is changed)

The prize is USD 500.

Source: www.competition.canon.ru

Canon installed the biggest outdoor ad in Moscow.

Canon installed one of the biggest outdoor ads in the world. This ad was installed in Moscow, at Street Kalujskaia 1. The height of the letters is from 11.55 m to 9.27 m and the whole length of the construction is 55.3 m.



People from Canon Europe expect this ad to be seen by over 6 million people per month.

This is not the first large outdoor ad campaing of the company in the Russian market.
Canon is also one of the primary sponsors of the Russian football premier league from 2006. Canon's logos are placed in 16 Russian stadiums and the authorities of the company say the logo placed in the stadiums are seen by 38 million people per year.

These actions tell again about the increasing interest of Canon to become the leading brand in Russia.

The vice president of Canon Europe, Akio Ito, proves it by saying the company is interested very much in the Russian market and has a lot of plans for it.

In 2006 the overall growth of sales of Canon branded products in Russia increased by 27,2% as compared with 2005. Quite a large portion of the sold Canon products belongs to printing devices.

Source: www.canon.ru

Canon launches a new photo printer.

Canon SELPHY CP740 is a new photo printer of very small dimensions. As the manufacturer says, it can be places on a palm. The device is supplied with a LCD screen and in-built eye reduction function.

This printer, like many others from the family of newly born and toddling-age photo printers, allows to print photos without a PC. It also offers basic functions for editting photos.

The printer is a sublimation printing device supposed to print 10x15 mm photos. It takes around 1 minutes to print 1 photo.



It works with almost all known memory cards.

SELPHY CP740 Compact Photo Printer will cost 100 USD in the US beginning with this summer. In Europe it will be sold from 2008.

Source: www.canon.com