04/21/2008
Today’s business world is more demanding for ability to conduct business almost anywhere. As a mobile professional, you may find it handy to print on-the-go, and Canon gives you this opportunity.
The new PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer from Canon U.S.A, successfully addresses printing needs on-the-go and delivers text and graphics for printing a business presentation or a contract. It prints borderless color photos from the car or even at the beach. This printer has increased color resolution and is faster than previous models. The lightweight Canon PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer fits easily onto a desk or into a case making it the perfect laptop companion for business or personal travel.
The PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer’s new design includes increased color resolution to a maximum 9600 x 2400 dpi, one picoliter droplet size (the first-ever mobile printer to have a minimum), and increased print speed. Additionally, the printer will use 2 black inks, one a pigment-based black ink for text and another for printing photos. The total volume of the pigment black ink tank has been increased by 50%.
The Canon PIXMA iP100 is the first mobile printer to have Auto Image Fix technology. With a laptop, this technology automatically recognizes the scenes in photographs and optimizes printing settings according to the scene type, such as Portrait, Scenery, Snapshot, etc.
With print speeds of up to 20 pages-per-minute for black and up to 14 ppm for color, this printer can deliver projects faster than previous models. The PictBridge port allows printing 4-x 6 inch to 8-x 10 inch and legal size pictures from a compatible digital camera or DV camcorder without a computer.
The PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer features a standard USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connection. Besides, business professionals have the option to print wirelessly from the built-in IrDA port or from select Bluetooth enabled cellular phones and computers with the new optional user installable Bluetooth Unit BU-30 (not included).
Canon offers the optional LK-62 Lithium Ion battery that last enough to make 290 pages per three-hour charge. Also, Mobile professionals will benefit from the optional Automobile Power Unit to power their PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer directly through a car power socket.
The iP100 Mobile Printer is available for $249.99. The LK-62 battery costs an additional $99.99, and a compatible Automobile Power Unit (PU-200U) sells for $89.99.
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With an attractive piano black design with rounded edges, many technology features and a value price point, this desktop printer departs from the traditional to stand out among its competition in this class. Canon brings high-end features into this category with blazing speeds and microscopic ink droplets being placed as small as two picoliters at up to 4800×1200 dpi color resolution. The Canon PIXMA iP2600 Photo Printer can deliver photo-lab-quality borderless 4″ x 6″ photos in approximately 55 seconds.
Canon U.S.A. announced an initiative that will combine the Company’s latest environmentally-conscious PIXMA, SELPHY and imageCLASS printer products and solutions under one corporate brand name: Generation Green. In addition, Canon offers a variety of solutions in its PIXMA, SELPHY and imageCLASS printer products that are integrated into this initiative such as paper saving technology, minimized product packaging, energy saving measures and the industry’s longest-running toner recycling program.



Apart from the functions mentioned above, Canon Pixma MX700 features networking, two-sided printing, and an auto document feeder. The device prints and copies 30 pages per minute (ppm) for black text and 19 ppm for color documents. The printer employs 4 separate color cartridges (pigment black, cyan, magenta, and yellow) that are capable of producing 2-picoliter-sized droplets at up to 4800 x 1200 dpi in color and 600 x 600 dpi in black.
Canon Pixma MX310 has the same basic design of MX700. Both the MX310 and the MX300 use one black and one combined color ink cartridge to print 4800 x 1200 dpi in color and 600 x 600 dpi in black. Both MX310 and the MX300 can print as fast as up to 22 ppm black and 17 ppm color. The printers are compatible with a PictBridge connection for direct printing from cameras, but don’t support memory card slots.
All in all, this month Canon has released 12 inkjet printers – 6 all-in-ones, 2 compact photo printers and 4 “men of mould” – regular color inkjet printers. Frankly speaking, I can’t imagine there is necessity for that many devices, however, there is surely someone at Canon who can. Wilson Rotham of Gizmodo.com is confused, too; in his acticle “
