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Printer Story
With over 60 years of experience and innovation, Canon is dedicated to giving
you, the consumer a product you can truly count on. Our Canon Bubble jet Printers
are built to deliver super performance and amazing image quality. From our on-the-go
mobile printers, to our high performance printers, Canon has a product to suit your
needs.
Innovation Canon technology has changed the way images and text put to paper. Canon's
Laser Beam Printer technology has redefined both color and black - and-white printing
standards, and are at work in over 80% of the world's laser printers. Today, Canon
is leveraging its heritage in the printer business and its branding expertise to
extend this market presence with the first in full line of Canon's Bubble-Jet printing
technology has completely revolutionised color printing by delivering the industry's
first photo inks and introducing PhotoRealismô - the new gold standard in image and
output quality. Canon's commitment in PhotoRealismô will be the new standard by which
all others will be judged.
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you can download, personalize and print on your color printer.
1981 Canon Develops Bubble Jet Printing Technologies
In the later half on the 1970s, engineers at Canon's Product Technology Research
Institute conducted research on printing technologies for the next generation of
copying machines. This work included research on ink-jet printing technologies, which
the company was already conducting. Based on their research reports, Canon concluded
that this field had significant potential, and set up the Ink-Jet R&D Group within
the Institute. The objective of this effort was to give Canon a fundamental printing
technology capability, and the Group started research in a small laboratory containing
a minimal number of measuring instruments and only two desks. Initial work was devoted
to producing piezo-elemental data necessary for ink jets, but this pursuit led to
the discovery of a new technology.
During testing, a hot soldering iron accidentally touched the needle of an ink-filled
syringe, causing ink to spray from the needle's tip. Witnessing this, a member of
the research team realized that heat, instead of pressure, could perhaps be used
to induce the spray of ink.
In 1997, technical concepts borne of this discovery were combined with thermal-head
technologies under development at the time. This enabled the number of ink nozzles
to be multiplied, a notion that was previously inconceivable, opening the way to
a new high-speed printing technology.
Numerous tests and refinements were made until Canon succeeded in developing the
world's first Bubble Jet printing method in 1981. The new technique was displayed
at the Canon Grand Fair the same year, drawing high praise from Japanese and overseas
observers, as well as the attention of the mass media. Canon continued to make refinements,
finally unveiling the BJ-80 Bubble Jet printer four years later, in 1985. This huge
technological development was the product of eight years - the period from the discovery
of the initial principle to commercialization - and the input of numerous people.
Canon's original
BJ-80 Bubble Jet Printer
1975 Canon Successfully Develops the Laser
Beam Printer
Around 1962, Canon conducted research into using lasers to write text, and applied
for related patents. Since it was unable to develop a practical laser light source,
however, that research was suspended.
In the 1970s, Canon's Central Research Institute, having learned that gas lasers
had entered the practical application stage in the United States, commenced R&D
on a laser beam printer that could combine a gas laser with its own NP electrophotographic
technologies.
The research team finally succeeded in creating sharp images by integrating laser
beam precision optical technologies with NP electrophotographic copying technologies.
Boosted by this success, a newly created team developed the LBP-4000 (based on the
NP-L7) in 1974. The new product was exhibited at the NCC business machine show in
the United States in May 1975 and attracted considerable attention.
Thanks to the strong response in the United States, the company decided to pursue
the fields of laser beam printers as a business. In addition to developing its own
models, Canon entered OEM agreements with companies in various nation to produce
laser beam printers and today, we have manufactured more than 15 million units of
laser printer engines.
The NP based LBP
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