varioPRINT iX-Series Celebrates First Year in Graphic Arts Market

Introduced in April 2020, Canon’s varioPRINT iX-series sheetfed inkjet press has seen a rapid uptake in the graphic arts market during its first year. Commercial printers, in particular, have installed the press to support growth across a wide range of high-value applications.

With more than 100 sales in its first year of market availability, the system has proven to be popular worldwide. Seventy percent of users are graphic arts and online print businesses producing general commercial print applications, including brochures, greeting cards, flyers, postcards and books.

Faced with shorter runs, higher costs, demanding delivery times and diversifying print offerings, print service providers are under constant pressure to accelerate production. On top of this, many have highlighted that they are forced to compromise because their existing technologies deliver on either productivity or quality, but not both.

Canon introduced the varioPRINT iX-series to offer a solution that could cost-efficiently deliver premium image quality on a wide media selection, together with high productivity, fast throughput and increased uptime.

More than 40 percent of varioPRINT iX-series users are new to Canon’s equipment, having installed the press to complement other technologies or to transition volumes from offset and liquid toner to digital inkjet.

“We take tremendous pride in offering products and solutions that help take our customers’ success to the next level. We are pleased with the positive feedback from our customers on their experience with the varioPRINT iX-series, and it is exciting to see them reach new market applications and increase their profitability,” said Peter P. Kowalczuk, president, Canon Solutions America.

Reinforcing its success in the market, the varioPRINT iX-series was presented with an EDP award in 2020 and, as a winning technology in the Keypoint Intelligence Outstanding Innovation Awards in Production Print, judges highlighted that the varioPRINT iX-series is “the first true sheetfed inkjet press capable of handling different formats and weights of coated and uncoated media.”