Canon announces commercial availability for the varioPress iV7 and varioPrint iX1700

Print Solutions

Canon has announced the commercial availability of its latest production inkjet technologies, the varioPress iV7 and varioPrint iX1700.

The iV7 is capable of printing 8700 B2 sheets 4/0 per hour, up to 4.5 million B2 images per month in a 24 hours a day, six days a week operation. It will be available from Q2 2026.

Designed for efficient short run B2 production, the varioPress iV7 has been created to address the increasing pressures of commercial print companies, online printers, and book and magazine producers. Its production capabilities as well as print quality and media support, will enable these print businesses to meet tighter deadlines and produce shorter runs as well as more premium applications.

In addition, Canon has also confirmed that its latest B3 inkjet platform, the varioPrint iX1700 sheetfed press, will be available from Q2 2026. With speeds of up to 170 A4 images per minute, or 73 B3 images per minute, the new press will efficiently produce average monthly volumes from 300,000 to two million A4 images.

The iX1700 inkjet platform features Canon’s new Qualinx technology and blends new and proven technologies, bringing together the company’s expertise in inkjet and sheetfed printing from its research and development centres in Japan, Germany and The Netherlands to produce consistent, high quality prints.

The two new inkjet presses join the varioPrint iX3200/2100 and will be commercially available from Q2 2026 and for customer demonstrations at Canon’s Customer Experience Centre in Venlo, The Netherlands, from January 2026.