BRAMPTON, Ontario (February 7, 2025) – Canon Canada Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is excited to share that Canon will be returning to Hunkeler Innovationdays (HID) 2025, taking place February 24 to 27 in Lucerne, Switzerland, where it will be collaborating with industry partners and showcasing to its customers the latest developments in its high-performance digital printing portfolio. Under the theme of ‘The Power to Move,” Canon will show how the power of digital print can move people and move businesses forward and how successful brands and print service providers leverage Canon’s transformative technologies, services and support.
It’s also a significant year for Canon, which is celebrating 10 years in production sheetfed inkjet. The company has been leading the way since 2015, when it launched the varioPrint i300, which then evolved into the highly successful varioPRINT iX3200. Through the design and development of such sheetfed inkjet presses, Canon has gained unsurpassed industry expertise and has similarly gained unmatched experience from installing and supporting over 700 sheetfed inkjet presses worldwide. As HID is known for showcasing the latest trends in cutting-edge solutions for continuous and sheetfed inkjet, this key industry event is the ideal place for Canon to mark this milestone achievement.
With the motto of this year’s show being “CONNECT,” Canon will be demonstrating the latest developments in its technology portfolio and how its end-to-end workflows can seamlessly integrate with customers’ ecosystems. Visitors across the digital segment, including online printers, commercial printers, book printers and publishers, and printers of promotional/business communications, will see how Canon’s technology and service portfolio has the power to connect people, solutions and processes to shape the future of print.
At Canon’s stand in Hall 2, visitors will see an array of technology, solutions and applications demonstrating the ability of its presses to connect to third-party equipment both with its own PRISMA workflow solutions and with partners’ and customers’ own workflows. The compact ProStream 2000 series of high-performance webfed inkjet presses, which can print on standard offset coated and uncoated, and on inkjet optimized media from 28gsm up to 150gsm, will be shown for the first time at Hunkeler Innovation Days. Live at the event, the ProStream 2133 will be printing an array of high-quality applications at speeds of up to 133m/min, including various short-run, format-variable brochures, direct mail, postcards and calendars that will be finished offline on the Muller Martini stand using its Connex automated workflow – and also on the Hunkeler stand with the Gen8 EVO Cut-Stack solution. Canon’s stand will also feature finishing equipment in-line with the ProStream: the Hunkeler web extender for the best print quality output and Weko’s new re-moistening unit for optimized product quality and efficiency for continuous digital inkjet production.
The highly successful varioPRINT iX3200 B3 sheetfed inkjet press, which customers globally rely on for monthly throughput from one million A4 images, will make its show debut in its in-line configuration with a Horizon iCE StitchLiner Mark V. This combination matches the market’s most sophisticated requirements, producing brochures with high variability and unparalleled scoring and folding quality. Also demonstrated with the varioPRINT iX3200 will be its new long-sheet paper input, thanks to an adapted BDT VX 370 feeder with a modified exit height. Working closely with partners, Canon will show how it can drive customer-specific production lines and workflows through custom implementations of its PRISMA technology.
With an expanding portfolio of sheetfed presses, Canon is continuously innovating its technology, reflecting its position at the forefront of the digital production print market and demonstrating more reasons for PSPs to partner with the company and benefit from the growth opportunities its broad portfolio of digital presses offers. Visitors to the stand will hear about Canon’s forthcoming sheetfed presses, the varioPRINT iX1700, which will efficiently produce average monthly volumes from 300,000 to 1.5 million A4 images, and then for higher volumes, the heavy-duty, B2 sheetfed press, the varioPRESS iV7, which will print up to 4.5 million B2 images per month. Presentations on the stand will also be detailing the comprehensive portfolio of Canon sheetfed technologies for businesses of all sizes and production volumes.
In addition to technology, customer case studies will be exhibited, illustrating the business benefits customers can achieve with Canon’s reliable, high-speed presses and its workflow automation, and how Canon supports customers with its professional services expertise.
Aligning with Canon’s circular approach, many of the materials and furniture that will be used on the stand have been recycled from the previous HID in 2023 and other recent events. During the show, Canon will also print on narrower width paper to reduce cut-off and paper waste, and the materials printed on the stand will be given away as samples.
For more information, visit the event page on Canon Europe’s website: www.canon-europe.com/business/insights/events/hunkeler-innovation-days.
To learn more about Canon Canada’s business solutions, visit www.canon.ca/en/business.
About Canon Canada Inc.
Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canon Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. Inc., is a leading provider of consumer and business-to-business digital imaging solutions. Innovation and cutting-edge technology have been essential ingredients in Canon’s success. Canon Canada Inc. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 per cent Canadian-based service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon Canada Inc. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility.
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