ipf825/815 COMPETITIVE BRIEF COMPETITIVE BRIEF imageprograf ipf825/ipf815 Large-Format Printers Designed specifically for high-volume technical documents printing environments, the 160GB hard-drive-equipped imageprograf ipf825 and ipf815 large-format printers are configured for maximum productivity. With more dedicated file processing memory than the preceding Canon models, these new printers offer customers the opportunity to consolidate their printing operations and reduce costs while improving the overall quality of output produced. High Productivity: Built to support medium to large workgroups, the ipf825/ ipf815 printers are equipped with a 160GB hard drive that provides the extra capacity needed to process large image files while supporting the needs of multiple users. And with two media rolls, the ipf825 printer offers your customers greater versatility and longer continuous printing with fewer stops to reload or change media. For even greater productivity from input to output these printers can also be configured with an optional color scanner and/or stacker. High-Quality Color and Monochrome Output: Capable of outputting lines as thin as 0.02mm thick, small fonts, and intricate details in either color or monochrome, these Canon large-format printers bridge a gap that other production systems fail to address between high-volume monochrome printing and high-quality color imaging by providing customers with a single solution for all their output requirements. High-Speed Output: From click-to-print, these large-format printers are built for speed! With dual channels of Matte Black ink, Canon s high-speed L-COA processor, enhanced file processing features, and a total of 15,360 nozzles to eject ink, these printers will output an intricately detailed D size print in just 24 seconds! Low TCO: With a low initial cost of acquisition, low maintenance, long-life print-heads, reduced power requirements, automated media-saving functions, and an Economy Print Mode that significantly reduces ink consumption, the ipf825 and ipf815 are highperformance printing solutions with a low total cost of ownership. And Canon s Administrator Mode and Accounting Manager feature are designed to help your customers keep costs down by managing the printer more effectively and tracking consumables use. * Mechanical print time does not include data transfer time. Print time is measured for 60 consecutive minutes (including head cleaning and cutting time), printing multiple copies using Canon Printer Driver with Plain Paper setting at Draft (full-density) Mode. Enabling Economy Mode increases print speed to 120 D/A1 pages per hour.
What makes the ipf825 and ipf815 printers unlike other large-format printers? These easy-to-use printers are powered by advanced Canon technologies, seamlessly integrated into a comprehensive large-format printing solution. UNIQUE SELLING FEATURES BENEFITS PROPOSITION Width 44"-wide output Large-format printing of GIS maps, CAD drawings, posters, photos, and more! High-Quality Printing Minimum line weight: 0.02mm Easy-to-read text even small fonts Line accuracy: +/- 0.10% on colored backgrounds High-resolution: up to 2400 x 1200 dpi output Full-color graphics look great on Tiny 4pl ink droplets of ink coated media and uncoated papers Unique 5-Color Reactive Ink system Precise details, solid fills, smooth Color-fast dye-based inks for bold, expressive colors curves, and fine lines Pigment black ink for durable line drawings and text Durable scratch-resistant prints Maximum Productivity Workgroup ready Multiple users can easily share Two media rolls (ipf825 only) the printer 160GB hard drive supports medium- to large-size Print longer without interruptions workgroups and large image files Quickly produce multiple sets Super-high-density print-head with 15,360 nozzles of documents Double set of Matte Black ink channels increase High-speed image processing output speed for text and line drawings means projects output faster Auto selection of black ink type Increased output capacity Borderless printing up to 42 Replace ink tanks on-the-fly L-COA Processor Enhanced HDI Driver Print a D-sized line drawing in just 24 seconds! Print speeds up to 688 ft 2 /hr on plain paper and up to 116 ft 2 /hr on glossy photo paper Cost-Effective The Economy Print Mode significantly reduces Lower overall total cost of ownership ink consumption Track job costs Long-life print-heads reduce maintenance costs Manage the printer, ink, and media Auto rotation and nesting of HP-GL/2 files minimizes more efficiently media waste Administrative and Accounting Manager feature Versatile Direct printing support for HP-GL2 and HP RTL Software and workflow solutions help HDI Driver for direct printing from AutoCAD all levels of users get great results Canon Printer Driver Print Plug-in for Microsoft Office Digital Photo Front-Access PosterArtist Lite 2
imageprograf GIVES CUSTOMERS MORE OF WHAT THEY NEED. Guiding your customers towards the best large-format printing system for their needs will involve demonstrating to them the advantages of the imageprograf solution. Because your customers may also be considering an HP Designjet printer, we have compiled here a comparison of the key features and functions found in various printers. What Customers Need: Value Competitively priced against the HP DJ 4020/ DJ 4520, Canon s imageprograf ipf825 and ipf815 large-format printers deliver exceptional value and performance. What Customers Need: Workgroup Productivity The large 160GB hard drive means that these new printers have a tremendous amount of space for print job data storage and more dedicated memory for file processing than the preceding Canon models. And unlike hard drives with fixed memory space allocations based on specific processes, Canon s new hard drive enables variable space allocation so that memory use is optimized by using free space as needed when new processes are loaded. Canon s hard-drive-equipped printers also include workgroup productivity-enhancing features. Sharing these Canon printers is easier for multiple users because individuals can organize and manage their print jobs via the system s remote user interface with up to 30 individual Mail Boxes. Mail Boxes help keep each person s jobs organized and separate from those being printed by other people, Mail Boxes can be password-protected for increased security and to control access as needed. These Canon printers also feature an optimized HP-GL/2 data processing algorithm that accelerates data processing of large files that have both raster and vector data (such as drawings with maps embedded) while helping to improve overall image quality. What Customers Need: Uninterrupted Printing With large 330ml and 700ml ink tanks, the ipf825/ipf815 printers have substantially more ink capacity than the HP DJ T770 and DJ T1200. This means that the Canon printers will require less frequent ink replenishment and will be able to more reliably handle large and multiple-copy print jobs. Canon s unique sub ink tank system also means that ink can be changed on the fly so even when the ink does run out, the work doesn t need to stop! And unlike the HP DJ 4020/DJ 4520, the Canon printers include additional features such as automatic media feed and borderless printing to help keep the printer running reliability with minimal operator intervention. What Customers Need: Accurate Output With miniscule 4pl droplets of ink that are 20% to 75% smaller than the droplets output by HP s DJ 4020, DJ 4520, DJ T1200, DJ T770, and DJ 510 models, the imageprograf printers are better equipped to accurately reproduce every detail of your customers complex drawings and schematics. The smaller droplets of ink also contribute to the imageprograf printers ability to output extremely thin lines, down to just 0.02mm! In most cases the HP printers produce lines no thinner than 0.06mm (three times thicker than ipf) and can only achieve 0.02mm lines in HP-GL/2 addressable mode. 3
What Customer s Need: To See Every Detail HP s Vivera inks were primarily developed as a photo-printing ink. Already renowned for outstanding photo image quality, Canon s 5-Color Reactive Ink system goes a step further to also address your customers needs to print highly detailed drawings and graphics with super-clear, small fonts and crisp lines over colored backgrounds. Canon s unique wide color gamut ink set features four colorfast dye inks and a pigment Matte Black ink that are chemically engineered to prevent bleeding so text and lines are always sharp and legible even on uncoated paper. What Customers Need: High Speed AND High Quality The ipf825 and ipf815 are incredibly fast printers. And because these Canon printers are equipped with dual Matte Black ink channels, they excel at producing line drawings as well as photos and full-color graphics. With a top speed of 688 ft 2 /hr, these Canon printers are 25% faster than the DJ T1200 and DJ T770, both of which have a maximum speed of only 549 ft 2 /hr. Compared to the DJ 510, these Canon printers are more than six times faster! And the higher the quality output you want to produce, the bigger the difference gets! At 89 ft 2 /hr for a 2400 x1200 dpi full-color image on glossy photo paper, the imageprograf printers are 170% faster than the HP DJ T770 s 33 ft 2 /hr for a best quality print on glossy media. Faster output means more jobs can be completed in a work day, deadlines can be met, and less time is wasted waiting for prints to be produced. While speed is important to your customers nobody wants to sacrifice quality! Though the HP DJ 4020/DJ 4520 boast print speeds that approach 1,000 ft 2 /hr on plain paper, this speed is achieved by sacrificing print quality. With only four colors of ink, no dye black ink, and large droplets of ink, the DJ 4020 and DJ 4520 are not well suited for printing high-quality graphics, photos, and intricately detailed technical drawings. With these limitations on the types of jobs and quality of work that can be produced, the HP printers will struggle to meet your customers full range of printing requirements. What Customers Need: Reliability Canon s ultra high-density print-head is what makes high-quality printing at super high speeds possible. With 15,360 nozzles Canon s print-head has 80% more nozzles than all eight of the print-heads combined in the DJ 4020/ DJ 4520, more than twice the number of nozzles in the DJ T1200 and DJ T770 (each with only 6,336 nozzles), and over 12 times the nozzles found in the DJ 510, which has only 1,216 nozzles. With more nozzles, the Canon print-head is designed to be more reliable, so your customers can expect less downtime and greater overall productivity. What Customers Need: Security Canon s hard-drive-equipped printers also support multiple methods of data erasure and document security, ranging from a quick and easy option that simply removes file system information to a triple overwrite of the hard drive that conforms to the DoD.52220.22-M standard of the U.S. Department of Defense. What Customers Need: Lower Costs These days, cost reductions are mandatory. That s why the ipf825/ ipf815 printers have an Economy Print mode. Ideal for printing color drafts and check plots, the Economy Print mode significantly reduces ink consumption costs. Large ink tanks, on-the-fly ink replacement, borderless printing, productivity, and workflow solutions are all included to help keep the printer running with minimum operator intervention for a lower overall cost of ownership. And Canon s Accounting Manager feature will help your customers keep costs down by tracking how much ink and media are used. Canon keeps energy costs down too! Compared to the DJ 4020/ DJ 4520, these imageprograf printers will consume significantly less power. When in operation, the DJ 4020/ DJ 4520 draw up to 500 Watts! These imageprograf printers require only 190 Watts (or less). Not only does lower power consumption help reduce your customers energy costs it s better for the environment, too! 4
What Customer s Need: A Complete Solution the Whole Office Can Use When your customers buy an imageprograf printer, they re buying a system designed to make large-format printing easier for everyone in their office. With every ipf825 and ipf815 device, Canon includes more document creation and management solutions than either Epson or HP. Accounting Manager feature helps operators track and manage their actual printing costs. Users can assign their own costs for ink and media as well as other variable costs that may need to be added. The Accounting Manager feature also records Job Name, Job Owner Client Job ID, Client Job Submission Time, Job Completion Time, Job Completion State, Ink Consumption per Job, Media Type, Number of Completed Pages, and Media Consumption Area per Job. Records are collected and can be exported as a CSV file for use in Excel or other popular administrative software. Operators can also schedule acquisition of job logs from the Status Monitor as desired. Canon s Print-Plug-in for Microsoft Office makes printing enlargements from Excel, Word, and PowerPoint as easy as printing to a desktop printer! The on-screen wizard simplifies settings, scaling, and paper size selection. PosterArtist Lite is a poster creation package for PCs that makes it easy to create posters, signs, and banners from hundreds of customizable templates and royalty-free images. Users just follow the simple step-by-step on-screen instructions no design experience is required! For those with more demanding poster creation needs, Canon offers the full PosterArtist option. Go to www.usa.canon.com/posterartist for more information. Free Layout Function: Assemble charts, tables, text documents, and graphics of different file formats onto a single page, and print them together to create high-impact posters and presentations. Scan and Print Enlargements. Making enlargements is as easy as making copies when an imageprograf largeformat printer is integrated with a CanoScan enabled desktop scanner or with a Canon imagerunner multifunction system. Digital Photo Front-Access: A utility that helps make managing and printing photos easier. 5
FEATURE COMPARISONS: ipf815 BRAND CANON HP HP HP EPSON Model ipf815 DJ 4020 DJ T770 DJ510 SP9700 Width 44"/$5,795 42"/$6,568 44"/$4,670 42"/$2,695 44"/$4,995 and MSRP Maximum 2400 x 1200 2400 x 1200 Optimized 2400 x 1200 Optimized 2400 x 1200 Optimized 1440 x 720 Resolution Memory 32GB 608MB 8GB 160MB 256MB (Upgrade to 416MB) Hard Drive 160GB 160GB 160GB N/A N/A Max Speed-- Color Prints 688 ft 2 /hr 1000 ft 2 /hr 549 ft 2 /hr 103 ft 2 /hr 619 ft 2 /hr Ink Tank Size 330/700ml 225/400/775ml 69ml/130ml 28ml/69ml 150/350/700ml Ink Type Pigment/Dye Dye/Pigment Dye/Pigment Dye/Pigment Pigment Number of Colors 5 4 6 4 5 Ink Colors C, M, Y, K, MBK C, M, Y, K C, M, Y, MK, PK, GY C, M, Y, MK C, VM, Y, PK or MK Print-Head PF-03 HP 90 HP 72 HP 11 MicroPiezo TFP Total Nozzle 15,360 8,384 6,336 1,216 3,600 Count Black Nozzle 5,120 2,096 3,168 304 720 Ink Droplet 4pl 5pl (C, M, Y) 6pl (C, M, PK, GY) 18pl (MK) 3.5pl Size 15pl (K) 9pl (Y, MK) 4pl (C, M, Y) Variable Droplet Line Accuracy 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.20% 0.10% Minimum Line 0.07mm 0.07mm 0.07mm Color.028mm Weight 0.02mm (0.02mm HP-GL/2 (0.02mm HP-GL/2 0.09mm Black Addressable) Addressable) Print HP-GL/2, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, HP-PCL3-GUI, HP-GL/2, HP-GL, HP-GL/2, Languages HP RTL, GARO CALS/G4, TIFF, JPEG CALS/G4, HP-PCL3-GUI HP RTL HPRTL, CALS 4 Workflow Canon Printer Driver, Instant Print Utility: Instant Print Utility: Instant Print Utility Express Preview Solutions Digital Photo Utility, Serif Utility for Mac HDI Driver for Front Access, Poster Designer and Windows AutoCAD HDI Driver, Pro for HP Optional Serif Poster Print Plug-in Pro for HP for MS Office, PosterArtist Lite, Accounting Manager Feature Floor Space Required 45.1 x 74.6 x 38.4 76 x 31.5 x 53.2 69.7 x 28.4 x 41.3 67 x 27 x 43 74 x 27 x 48 (H x W x D) Power 190 Watts or Less 500 Watts 120 Watts 150 Watts 70 Watts Consumption (<6W in Standby) (<7W in Standby) (<16W in Standby) 6
FEATURE COMPARISONS: ipf825 HP HP HP EPSON BND BRAND CANON HP HP HP HP EPSON Model ipf825 DJ 4520 DJ T1200 DJ T770 DJ 1050c Plus SP9700 Width 44"/$7,495 42"/$8,410 44"/$5,790 44"/$4,670 36" 44"/$4,995 and MSRP $9,824 with PS $6,990 with PS $5,670 with PS Discontinued Number of 3 with Media Rolls 2 2 2 1 Multi-Roll Option 1 Maximum 2400 x 1200 2400 x 1200 2400 x 1200 2400 x 1200 1200 dpi Lines 1440 x 720 dpi Resolution Optimized Optimized Memory 32GB 608MB 32GB 8GB 64MB 256MB Hard Drive 160GB 160GB Optional 160GB 160GB Optional 2GB N/A Max Speed-- Color Prints 688 ft 2 /hr 1,000 ft 2 /hr 549 ft 2 /hr 549 ft 2 /hr 200 ft 2 /hr 619 ft 2 /hr Ink Tank Size 330/700ml 225/400/775ml 69/130ml 69/130ml 175/350ml 150/350/700ml 300ml (MK Only) Ink Type Pigment/Dye Pigment/Dye Pigment/Dye Dye/Pigment Pigment/Dye Pigment Number of Colors 5 4 6 6 4 5 Ink Colors C, M, Y, K, MBK C, M, Y, K C, M, Y, MK, PK, GY C, M, Y, MK, PK, GY C, M, Y, K C, VM, Y, PK or MK Print-Head PF-03 HP 90 HP 72 HP 72 HP 80 MicroPiezo TFP Total Nozzle 15,360 8,384 6,336 6,336 2,048 3,600 Count Black Nozzle 5,120 2,096 3,168 3,168 512 720 Ink Droplet 4pl 5pl (C, M, Y) 6pl (C, M, PK, GY) 6pl (C, M, PK, GY) N/A 3.5pl Size 15pl (K) 9pl (Y, MK) 9pl (Y, MK) Variable Droplet Line Accuracy 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.02% 0.10% Minimum Line 0.07mm 0.06mm 0.06mm 0.003 in..028mm Weight 0.02mm (0.02mm HP-GL/2 (0.02mm HP-GL/2 (0.02mm HP-GL/2 Addressable) Addressable) Addressable) Print HP-GL/2, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, HP-GL/2, HP GL, HP-GL, HP-GL/2, Languages HP RTL, GARO CALS/G4, TIFF, JPEG CALS/G4, CALS/G4, HP RTL, CALS/G4 HP RTL, CALS 4 HP-PCL3-GUI HP-PCL3-GUI Workflow Canon Printer Driver, Instant Print Utility: Instant Print Utility: Instant Print Utility: HP Jetdirect, Express Preview Solutions Digital Photo Utility, Serif Utility for Mac Utility for Mac ZEHRaster, HDI Driver for Front Access, Poster Designer and Windows and Windows MSWindows AutoCAD HDI Driver, Pro for HP Optional Serif Poster Optional Serif Poster Driver, AutoCAD Print Plug-in Pro for HP Pro for HP Driver, Optional for MS Office, Adobe PostScript 3 PosterArtist Lite, Accounting Manager Feature Floor Space Required 45.1 x 74.6 x 38.4 76 x 31.5 x 53.2 69.7 x 28.4 x 41.3 69.7 x 28.4 x 41.3 67 x 27 x 51 74 x 27 x 48 (H x W x D) Power 190 Watts or Less 500 Watts 120 Watts 120 Watts 200 Watts 70 Watts Consumption (<5W in Standby) (105W in Standby) (<7 W in Standby) (<7 W in Standby) (40W in Standby) (<16W in Standby) Color Legend C = Cyan K = Black PK = Photo Black M = Magenta MK = Matte Black GY = Gray Y = Yellow MBK = Matte Black VM = Vivid Magenta 7
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