Canon shows new Arizona 2200 flatbeds for first time

Canon (Hall 8a, B50) has further extended its Arizona flatbed range by debuting two printers in its newly launched 2200 series at drupa.

The Océ Arizona 2260 and 2280 Arizona flatbeds will begin shipping after the show.

Peter Wolff, European director of Canon’s Commercial Printing Group, said: “They are designed to expand the product-offering print service providers can make to their customers beyond signage and graphics into high quality applications like fine art.”

The new flatbeds feature Océ VarioDot grayscale and can be configured six or eight colours, including white and varnish. They have a 2.5x3m bed, which can handle media up to 50.8m thick and can run 2.2m rolls for unattended operation

Wolff added: “A high quality output over a diverse range of media is really the key USP of that product.”

Canon is also demonstrating a prototype inkjet photo products press at drupa, Voyager.

Voyager is targeted at premium photoproducts as well as catalogues, brochures and marketing materials and is a B2+ duplex press with seven colours and will be available from 2018.

Canon are also showing for the first time on its stand a number of new inline finishing devices, developed with . It has combined with Swedish company Plockmatic Group to develop the BLM50 and BLM35 bookletmakers, which print stapled or square-fold booklets of 200 and 140 pages respectively.

Both bookletmakers will be available from September 2016, and are compatible with the Canon imagePress C800, C700, C10000VP and C8000VP presses.

Wolf added: “I am confident that 2016 will really be the places where customers will understand the unlimited potential of digital printing.”