MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Through product
innovation in the mid-volume production color print market, Canon
U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital
imaging solutions, has announced that it has led the 301k to 999k
color duty cycle segment in the U.S. market for six consecutive
quarters, from Q4 2014 to Q1 2016, according to InfoTrends'
Quarterly Tracker. In the first quarter of 2016, Canon accounted
for 64.5 percent of the U.S. market share, with the next closest
competitor making up 17.8 percent. This figure represents a 7.3
percent increase in share from Q4 2015, where Canon made up 57.2
percent of the segment U.S. market share. When totaling results
from the beginning of Q4 2014 through the end of Q1 2016, Canon has
accounted for more than half of the U.S. market share for the color
301k to 999k duty cycle segment, with 53.7 percent.
"Canon's success in this market can be mostly attributed to the
imagePRESS C800 and imagePRESS C700 color digital production
presses," said Toyo Kuwamura,
executive vice president and general manager, Business Imaging
Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A.,
Inc. "Since their introduction in the last quarter of 2014, the
high quality, reliability and versatility of these digital presses
are an outstanding fit for almost every print operation and deliver
powerful opportunities in a small footprint, as proven by the
excellent market acceptance."
"The presence of the imagePRESS C800/C700 has strengthened
Canon's position in the mid-volume production market and expanded
their family of digital color offerings, providing the versatility
and efficiency needed in a variety of print environments, both
in-house and commercial," said Jim
Hamilton of InfoTrends.
Among those who use the imagePRESS C700 in their
workspace are AJS Business Imaging Solutions, LLC, a Warren, NJ-based digital solutions and service
provider with clients from the architecture, engineering,
pharmaceutical, and legal communities.
"The Canon imagePRESS C700 has proven to be one of the finest
machines that we have ever seen. It is fast, reliable, flexible,
and consistent. We are extremely impressed with the uptime of this
machine considering the variety and volume that we have produced.
We have printed envelopes, booklets, business cards, brochures,
labels, on a variety of stock. We really like the color on this
machine both for its accuracy, detail, and consistency on a page
and from page to page," said James La
Maire, president, AJS Business Imaging Solutions, LLC.
Minuteman Press of Auburn,
Washington, an offset and digital printing and graphics
center, has found that the Canon imagePRESS C700 has helped with
their productivity, color consistency and customer satisfaction.
The Canon imagePRESS C700 was chosen to allow them to offer a
quality product to their customers with a reliable machine. This
has allowed Minuteman Press of Auburn to meet the growing demands of their
customers.
Dominic Abbadi, president of
Chicago's Concorde Printing and
Digital Imaging, uses the imagePRESS C800 to help meet their
customer's demands. "The C800 has been a game-changer that has
helped our print business meet customer demands with increased
output in a faster turnaround time without sacrificing quality,"
said Abbadi.
For more information on the imagePRESS series, as well as other
Canon products, please visit www.cusa.canon.com.
About Canon U.S.A.,
Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is
a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and
industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding Mexico) markets. With approximately
$31 billion in global revenue, its
parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S.
patents granted in 2015† and is one of Fortune
Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2016. Canon
U.S.A. is committed to the highest
level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent
U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it
distributes. Canon U.S.A. is
dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and
environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas
Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for
the design, construction, operations and maintenance of
high-performance green buildings. To keep apprised of the latest
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†Based on weekly patent counts issued by United
States Patent and Trademark Office.
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