Pantone’s Calibrated License Granted To Four New Canon imagePROGRAF GP Series Large Format Printers Of Fluorescent Ink
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Carlstadt, NJ, USA, September 2021 – Pantone is pleased to announce that Canon’s new series of imagePROGRAF large-format printers (GP-4000, 2000, 300, and 200), featuring the world’s first fluorescent ink for vivid colors and bold expression, is also now the world’s first licensed as Pantone Calibrated for Pantone Pastels & Neons.
Canon’s unique “Radiant Infusion” technology layers a newly developed fluorescent pink ink with other inks on paper surfaces during printing to enable bright and soft color reproduction for high-impact, high value-added prints.
Canon sought Pantone Calibrated approval from Pantone under license because of Pantone’s reliability for consistent color reproduction and its world-wide brand recognition.
Canon and Pantone technicians worked directly for a system of color recipes to ensure that the range of Pantone Pastels & Neons Colors could be simulated and reproduced with the new GP printers.
When Pantone determined that these colors could be simulated consistently, it was pleased to grant these four printers its Pantone Calibrated designation.
In addition, Canon’s GP-4000 and GP-2000 printers were found by Pantone to achieve 99% coverage of Pantone Formula Guide Solid Coated Colors and received a Pantone Calibrated designation for those colors as well.
These new models include the imagePROGRAF GP-4000 (44 inch) and GP-2000 (24 inch) which use 10 ink colours including red, orange, green and violet, plus fluorescent pink.
The new imagePROGRAF GP-300 (36 inch) and GP-200 (24 inch) will also be launched which use 5 striking ink colours, plus fluorescent pink.
Joe Courts, Head of Product Marketing at Canon UK & Ireland, comments: “As retail, hospitality and leisure businesses focus on reopening and recovery, bright, vibrant promotional poster graphics have a critical role to play in grabbing consumers’ attention, driving footfall and stimulating sales. For graphics producers, creative agencies and in-house print departments serving these businesses, the new imagePROGRAF GP Series printers have been developed to make vivid colours pop and bring campaign visuals to life, print after print.”
Pantone offers many different hardware licensing options for qualifying printers, monitors, and colored materials, including Pantone Validated, Pantone Calibrated, and Pantone Capable.
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The company’s corporate headquarters are located in Grand Rapids, Mich., with regional headquarters in Europe and Asia and service centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. X-Rite offers a full range of solutions used by manufacturers, retailers, printers, photographers and graphic design houses to achieve precise management and communication of color and appearance throughout their processes.
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About Canon Inc.
Canon Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a world-leading innovator and provider of imaging solutions for businesses and consumers.
In 1933, Canon’s first trading company, Kwanon was established and a few years later in 1937, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd, the predecessor of Canon Inc. was founded.
The company now develops, manufactures and sells a wide range of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical products and other products to meet a diverse variety of customer needs.
The Canon brand is well recognized and trusted worldwide by individuals, families and in businesses and industrial sectors.
