Canon demonstrates ‘The Power to Move’ celebrating a decade of production sheetfed inkjet

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Canon will be returning to Hunkeler Innovationdays (HID) 2025 (24 to 27 February 2025, Lucerne, Switzerland), where it will be collaborating with industry partners and showcasing to its customers the latest developments in its high performance digital printing portfolio. Under the theme of ‘The Power to Move’, the company will show how the power of digital print can move people and move businesses forward and how successful brands and print service providers leverage Canon’s transformative technologies, services and support. 

It is also a significant year for Canon which is celebrating ten years in production sheetfed inkjet. In 2015, it launched the VarioPrint i300, which then evolved into the highly successful VarioPrint iX3200. Through the design and development of such sheetfed inkjet presses, Canon has installed and supported over 700 sheetfed inkjet presses worldwide. As HID is known for showcasing the latest trends in solutions for continuous and sheetfed inkjet, this key industry event is the ideal place for the company to mark this milestone achievement. 

With the motto of this year’s show being ‘Connect’, Canon will be demonstrating the latest developments in its technology portfolio and how its end to end workflows can seamlessly integrate with customers’ ecosystems. Visitors across the digital segment, including online printers, commercial printers, book printers and publishers – and printers of promotional/business communications, will see how its technology and service portfolio has the power to connect people, solutions and processes to shape the future of print. 

At Canon’s stand in hall 2, visitors will see an array of technology, solutions and applications demonstrating the ability of its presses to connect to third party equipment both with its own Prisma workflow solutions and with partners’ and customers’ own workflows. The compact ProStream 2000 series of high performance webfed inkjet presses, which can print on standard offset coated and uncoated, and on inkjet optimised media from 28 to 150 g/m2, will be shown for the first time at Hunkeler Innovation Days. Live at the event, the ProStream 2133 will be printing an array of high quality applications, including various short run, format variable brochures, direct mail, postcards and calendars that will be finished off line on the Muller Martini stand using its Connex automated workflow – and also on the Hunkeler stand with the Gen8 Evo Cut-Stack solution. Canon’s stand will also feature finishing equipment in line with the ProStream: the Hunkeler web extender for the best print quality output and Weko’s new re-moistening unit for optimised product quality and efficiency for continuous digital inkjet production. 

The varioPrint iX3200 B3 sheetfed inkjet press, which customers globally rely on for monthly throughput from one million A4 images, will make its show debut in its in line configuration with a Horizon Ice StitchLiner Mark V. Also demonstrated with the  iX3200 will be its new long sheet paper input, thanks to an adapted BDT VX 370 feeder with a modified exit height.

Visitors to the stand will also hear about forthcoming sheetfed presses, the varioPrint iX1700, which will efficiently produce average monthly volumes from 300,000 to 1.5 million A4 images, and then for higher volumes, the heavy duty, B2 sheetfed press, the varioPress iV7, which will print up to 4.5 million B2 images per month.

Aligning with Canon’s circular approach, many of the materials and furniture that will be used on the stand have been recycled from the previous HID in 2023 and other recent events. During the show, it will also print on narrower width paper to reduce cut off and paper waste, and the materials printed on the stand will be given away as samples.