Flexa and Canon Strengthen Their Partnership to Deliver Advanced Finishing Solutions for Digital Printing
Wednesday, December 03, 2025 : Flexa and Canon are strengthening their collaboration as part of Canon Ambassador Programme, which brings together trusted industry partners to develop innovative, high-performance solutions for the large-format printing market.
As a Finishing Ambassador, Flexa collaborates closely with Canon to integrate its cutting and unwinding/rewinding systems with Canon’s Colorado roll-to-roll printer, delivering automated workflows that enhance productivity, precision, and efficiency across a wide range of printed materials.
Building on Canon’s UVgel printing technology, the collaboration offers customers versatile, fully automated solutions for applications such as wallpaper, self-adhesive vinyl, and other flexible media.
Seamless In-Line Cutting For Wallpaper Production
One highlight of this collaboration is the in-line system combining the Canon Colorado with the Flexa Miura Katana automatic XY cutter.
This setup enables the automatic cutting of digitally printed wallpaper directly from the printer output, ensuring perfectly aligned panels, no visible white edges and eliminating manual touch-ups.
The result is a seamless, ready-to-install wallpaper production workflow with consistent precision and reduced operator intervention.
It is possible to place the Flexa UD170 unwinder before the Canon Colorado printer, allowing the use of jumbo rolls — ideal for long, uninterrupted production runs and increased workflow autonomy.
Efficient Unwinding And Rewinding For Flexible Materials
Flexa also offers UD170 and RD170 unwinding and rewinding systems for jumbo rolls, designed to integrate with Canon Colorado printer.
These units ensure consistent accuracy thanks to the automatic vertical alignment (the only ones on the market), without the need of continuous operator supervision, ensuring a superior finishing quality.
The workflow remains continuous, and the finishing quality is superior, making it ideal for those working with flexible materials in high-volume production.
Driving Innovation Together
This partnership reinforces Flexa’s and Canon’s shared commitment to innovation and quality, providing the large-format printing industry with reliable, high-performance solutions designed to meet the evolving needs of professional print environments.
“Collaborating with Canon as part of the Finishing Ambassador Programme is a great opportunity to demonstrate how print and finishing technologies can work together to create a complete, automated workflow,” said Massimo Vettorazzo, President of Flexa.
For more information about the Colorado XL-series, please visit the product page
About Flexa
FLEXA is an experienced and internationally recognised Italian manufacturer of machines and equipments for the Visual Communication and the Digital Printing Industry, such as sign makers, digital printers, road signs manufacturers, screen printers, advertising and display producers.
Offering a wide and complete range of products and solutions, FLEXA is the ideal partner to simplify and improve the daily work of operators within the Advertising and Visual Communication Industry.
About Canon Production Printing
Canon Production Printing is a leading provider of professional printing solutions, specialising in innovative technologies that transform how businesses approach large format graphics production.
Canon Production Printing develops and manufactures high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market and is part of Canon, a global provider of imaging technologies and services. Canon Production Printing operates on three continents, with approximately, 3300 employees (end 2022) and has its global headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands.
The company is committed to delivering sustainable, high-performance printing solutions that meet evolving industry demands whilst maintaining operational excellence and environmental responsibility.
