Canon didn’t wait until drupa to release many of its new products. We covered a few very important product releases made at Hunkeler Innovation Days last February, and most of those announcements produced some fairly rapid sales and deployments. In fact, Canon finished 2015 in the number one position for its 6th straight year in inkjet placement globally. Canon projected that would exceed 1,000 inkjet engines placed globally by the end of 2016. While they are in the number one position globally, their placement in the US market is only bested by the combination of the Ricoh/Screen devices.
Total Inkjet Placements US Market Share
Source: InfoTrends; U.S. Production Printing and Copying Market Placements: 2010-2013 (April 2014) + 2014 Quarterly Tracking Program (Dec 2015)
Canon’s aim of reaching the number one position in the U.S. in 2016 will undoubtedly be supported by the newly announced ColorStream Mono, ColorStream 6000 Chroma, and the breakthrough VarioPrint i300 sheetfed press. CSA (Canon Solutions America) has already installed over 15 i300 systems, which in not bad for a press that has been shipping for less than a year. Customer ramp up, once installed is high, with each press printing an average of more than 2.5 million pages per month with a total volume to date of over 71 million pages. One customer, Progressive Impressions, reached over 8.5 million pages in a single month. Early indications are that the i300 has an uptime rate of 95-98%. Of note, between 40-60% of the i300 owners have transitioned from iGen, reinforcing that it is a very cost effective alternative to electrophotographic cut sheet presses.
