Canon releases the imagePRESS C270, a multi-functional color digital printing machine, which continues to help high-end office and light-duty production

Regeneration Times Report / On March 16, 2023, Canon (China) Co., Ltd. officially announced the launch of the imagePRESS C270 multifunctional color digital printing machine (hereinafter referred to as C270). All in one, only one device can meet the needs of high-end office and light-duty production scenarios at the same time, providing high-efficiency , High-quality, low-input, high-volume document output experience.


The C270 adopts a titanium white tone body, which is simple and beautiful overall. Its maximum output speed is 70PPM for color and 80PPM for black and white (A4 80gsm). The recommended monthly printing volume is 100,000 prints (A4 80gsm), and the peak monthly printing volume can reach 390,000 prints (A4). The printing speed of A4 coated paper is even more comparable. A 35% improvement over the previous generation. At the same time, the C270 can also output various printing materials on demand, provide high-quality printing solutions for marketing materials, meet the ever-changing business needs and daily work needs, and realize that you can do it yourself in the company or unit without leaving home. Produce high-quality prints, ensuring the quality, efficiency and confidentiality of prints.

High-quality picture quality presentation

Good printing effects are pleasing to the eye, and exquisite high-quality printed products can enhance corporate value and win more customers for the company. C270 is the entry-level device of Canon's imagePRESS series. Canon has applied many professional technologies in color imaging, such as R-VCSEL red laser imaging, Multi-D.A.T. (Multi-level Density Adjustment Technology) and translucent CV toner. 2400x2400dpi laser imaging and 190LPI circular dots output clear and vivid color images, making it have the image quality of imagePRESS high-end equipment. In addition, with the addition of multi-level density adjustment technology, the C270 can automatically detect the 5-level tone of CMYK to ensure continuous and stable colors in highlights, midtones and shadow areas.



Wide range of media applications

For internal printing and small production environments, the C270 combines media versatility with the ability to produce high-quality images to help customers output a variety of printed products. The C270 supports a media weight range of 52-350gsm, which can realize plain paper, heavy paper, coated paper, textured paper, self-adhesive, transparencies, recycled paper, colored paper, label paper, postcards, tracing paper, envelopes, letterheads, It can output a wide range of media types such as bond paper and pre-punched paper, and supports long paper banner printing up to 1300mm, which can flexibly produce various marketing promotional materials, training materials, banner posters, postcards, business cards and six-fold pages. brochures and other products. At the same time, the elastic transfer belt of C270 is combined with the convenient touch-sensitive transfer voltage adjustment, so that the toner can be filled into the depression of the medium, and it can print brochure covers, business cards, and desk cards on textured paper weighing up to 300gsm and other high-level prints.



Strong "throughput" capability

In terms of paper feeding, the C270 host comes with four paper trays, providing a paper supply capacity of 3300 sheets (80gsm). ), to meet the needs of large-capacity printing. At the same time, the right side of the C270 host is also equipped with a multi-functional manual tray as standard, which is convenient for users to print extended paper up to 1300mm. In addition, users can add a bypass stack feeder on the right side of the multi-cassette paper cabinet to print extended paper, fully expanding the capacity and flexibility of the equipment.


In terms of paper output, the C270 can be configured with two types of finishing processors with different performances. Office users can choose collator AC1/AC2 (saddle type) to handle stacking of regular size documents (3500 sheets 80gsm capacity), page sorting, corner staples, edge staples, saddle stitch and stapleless binding, and also provide flexibility for side-to-side manual printing Nail, simple and efficient.



Production users can choose the saddle finisher AG1, which has a stacking capacity of up to 5000 sheets (80gsm), supports more sizes of misaligned stacks, and provides saddle stitching function, which can output booklets directly at the bottom. The left side of the page finisher can also be connected with an edge cutter to cut while turning the page, so that the finished product is neat and beautiful.



Smart all-rounder for office applications

C270 is a multi-functional cross-border player. It not only has high quality assurance and high production capacity, but also can meet various office needs. The C270 adopts induction heating technology, and it only takes 30 seconds to start copying and printing from power-on or sleep mode, which effectively saves waiting time. At the same time, its body comes with a human body sensor, which can restore the screen interface within 4 seconds when it senses the approach of a user in sleep mode, and is a working partner who is always by your side.

The C270 can not only "type" but also "scan". It is equipped with an automatic double-sided color scanning document feeder as standard, with a paper capacity of 200 sheets (80gsm), supports 38-220gsm originals, and a scanning speed of up to 270 pages of A4/minute (300dpi ), and has double-sheet detection and skew correction functions, which fully meet the scanning needs.


At the same time, C270 also has practical functions such as wireless printing (can be shielded), scanned OCR to text, scanned PDF to outline, skip blank page scanning, ID card re-copying function and other practical functions, and supports sending files to Email, SMB v3.0 , FTP, WebDAV, MailBox and other receivers to meet the daily work needs of enterprise users.

Efficient printing management and security

C270 comes with UFRII and PCL5/6 printing languages. By matching PS printing components or imagePRESS server M20 server, it can improve printing quality, manage large batches of jobs, and meet the processing requirements for complex files.

In terms of print management, by registering users and devices to Canon's mdsFLOW Online Express for card printing, a personalized and secure printing environment within the enterprise can be created. mdsFLOW Online Express also enables administrators to monitor printing, copying and scanning costs so that costs can be properly allocated to individual users, devices or departments, and related reports can be generated and exported.


In terms of security, the C270 has a variety of security function settings to prevent troubles caused by document leakage and modification, unauthorized access to the network, wrong transmission, and leakage of confidential information when operating the machine, minimizing security risks.

Practical software solution

In terms of pre-press document processing, the practical POD three-piece software Print Studio, Total Print and Link include many functions such as document pre-checking, page regularization, imposition and pagination, printing and archiving, etc., which can respectively meet the needs of users for visual and batch document processing The requirements of three different levels of automation and automation can speed up the processing efficiency of prepress documents and fully release the output capacity of C270.



In terms of layout design, Canon provides users with free and very practical PosterArtist Lite poster design software, which contains a large number of exquisite templates and materials. Through four steps of selecting templates, setting paper, editing elements and printing, you can output exquisite posters on the C270 The design draft can design brochure covers, calendars, desk cards, posters, leaflets, long banners, etc. for enterprises, without starting from a blank layout, saving a lot of time and meeting the daily design needs of users.

 

Environmentally friendly design

Canon's firm commitment to the environment is reflected in the design, manufacture and use of the C270. The C270's low power consumption (only 0.9W) during sleep helps save energy, and the combination of inductive fuser heating technology and low melting point toner helps reduce power demand and energy consumption. C270 has obtained the "China Environmental Labeling Certificate" issued by the Chinese official authority, which fully proves that the product is friendly to the environment. Compared with similar products, it has environmental advantages such as saving resources and energy. It is a product that can be fully integrated into the user's environment. production equipment.