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China’s market for new printers was worth more than $320m in the first three months of this year, according to new market research.

Printer sales in the country were up 4.1 per cent compared to the same period last year, reported Beijing-based consultancy Analysys International.

The numbers do not include consumables such as paper, toner and ink which provide between a half and two thirds of printer market revenues.

HP was China’s largest printer vendor in the first quarter, grabbing almost one third of the market. Epson and Canon held 21 per cent and 14.1 per cent respectively.

Almost 2.1 million printers were shipped in China during the quarter, a year-on-year increase of 3.4 per cent. The first quarter is normally the slowest of the year.

Hobbled by a lack of up-to-date laser or inkjet technology, local Chinese firms have no significant presence in the printer market, although they do profit from consumables such as third-party inkjet cartridges.

China’s largest PC vendor, Lenovo, is reportedly exploring ways of entering the market, most likely by buying a smaller foreign printer maker.

Industry and government remain the country’s biggest printing customers. Less than a quarter of printer sales in China are for personal use, according to research published last at the end of last year by Analysys.

China’s printer market is growing fast, and the laser segment alone is expected to exceed $5bn by 2010, according to predictions for sales of hardware, toner and paper from Lyra Research.

Canon have launched two new fax machines recently. Both of which we at Stinkyink Towers have stock of the inkjet cartridges for you.

The JX200, and JX500 both use Canon’s PG-40 Moderate use black inkjet cartridge or the PG-50 Standard black inkjet cartridge. We are also able to offer our Peach Snap ‘n’ Print compatible cartridges to enable you to save money whilst using these machines

At long last, the eagerly awaited PIXMA Pro 9500 is here. Originally planned for launch in 2006, this A3 printer had had photographers and imaging professionals drooling for almost 12 months!.

The PIXMA Pro9500 has been designed from the ground up, using a 10-colour cartridge system featuring new formulation “Lucia” pigment inks. At the professional end of the photographic market, customers have usually employed 2 machines - 1 dedicated to colour output and the other optimised for monochrome work. Understandably this is both expensive to perate, difficutl to setup and profile, and takes up unnecessary space. The Pixma Pro 9500 package, delivering high quality, durabel colour and monochrome output up to A3+ in size.

10 Colour Pigment ink

The Pixma Pro9500’s 10-colour pigment ink system delivers the accuracy and durability required for portraits, exhibits and fine art work. Red and Green ink tanks broaden the colour gamut for increased accuracy when printing highly saturated colours. With three dedicated monochrome inks - Photo Black, Matte Black and Grey, the PIXMA Pro9500 also offers a new level of quality in professional monochrome printing.

Why Pigment Ink?

Pigment ink is the preferred ink type for commercial photo and fine art printing. It maintains high contrast levels, clarity and colour saturation over extended periods of time. Pigment inks add a solid layer of colour that prints extremely well on both smooth photo papers and fine art papers.

Single Ink System

The Pixma Pro9500 uses Canon’s single ink system, maximising printing efficiency by providing individually replaceable ink tanks for each colour. An ink level window on each tank allows for quick checks of ink status and an LED provides a visual warning when an ink tank is empty or running low. In addition to this both momochrome and colour inks are located in the print head, so the printer can automatically swithc between the two without the user having to swap tanks or purge ink.

Smoother Output

When printing in black and white, conventional printers create light grey areas using a combination oc CMYK inks, resulting in output that lacks depth and subtlety. The Pixma Pro9500’s dedicated grey ink minimises the the use of colour inks, therefore producing a wider range of greyscale, with smooth graduated tones, perfect for printing neutral monochrome prints.

Hi I’m James from Stinkyink I’m going to explain to you about the Peach Snap n Print system which can replace your canon PG40/50 and CL41/51 ink cartridges Running your printer can prove to be a very expensive business which is why I am excited to explain to you about the benefits of using the Peach snap n print system from Stinkyink  

Using canon original ink will cost you around £1.00 for 1 ml of black ink and £1.40 for 1 ml of colour ink.  Using the Peach snap n print system over the same period will cost you approximately £0.36 for 1 ml of black ink and £0.46 for 1 ml of colour ink. 

This is a huge saving of over 60% when compared to the equivalent original manufacturers cartridges.  Although there are great benefits in the savings made on these cartridges do not worry there is no trade off in quality so you can print in confidence. 

Canon-From an Optical Lab to a Multimedia Giant

Canon, according to the dictionary means is a general law, rule, principle or criterion; church decree or law; member of cathedral chapter; body of writings accepted as genuine.
Now what I am talking about is a company that manufactures user-friendly products! Canon the camera making company that now gives varied other products and services to the world such as printers, inks and fax machines and copiers!

Canon’s Roots
Canon’s roots were laid in 1933 with very few employees as a precision optical instruments lab. The Laboratory was founded in 1933 in a third-floor apartment of the Takekawaya Building in Roppongi, Azabu Ward, Tokyo. Its objective was to produce high-grade cameras.

A young man named Goro Yoshida, a passionate camera-lover; and his brother-in-law, Saburo Uchida, set up the Laboratory jointly. Their aim was to make cameras that could compete with the German models that were considered the most advanced of the day.

They started by analyzing existing cameras, which were difficult to obtain. Systematically, they studied each camera’s internal workings, examined mechanisms, drew up design diagrams and procured parts. Takeshi Mitarai, a close friend of Uchida provided the funds required for the research. Mitarai later became president of the company and built its foundation.

It then went on to become a renowned camera making company. When it grew and decided to diversify its business plans it had to shed its image of a company that manufactured only cameras, therefore the top brass of the company decided to take on the name Canon Inc in 1969. The year1969 was also the year that canon forayed into business machines and eventually into the printing business.

Product Chronology

To go through a brief chronology of Canon’s printing and copying history - Canon successfully developed the laser beam printer in 1975. In 1982, the PC-10 and PC-20, the world’s first personal copying machines with replaceable cartridges, were introduced. Canon, in collaboration with IBM Japan, Ltd., developed the world’s first notebook PC with an installed printer in 1993.

Bubble Jet Discovery

One of canon’s most interesting discoveries in the field of printing technology was the bubble jet printing technology. Researchers while working on the inkjet printing technology hit upon the discovery when a hot solder gun accidentally touched the tip of an ink-filled needle due to which ink sprayed out! Therefore, the researchers concluded that heat instead of pressure could be used to eject the ink on the media.
The development of this technology gave the world it’s first bubblejet printer in 1981.

Laser Beam Printing

Another important technology in the field of printing by Canon was the development of laser beam printers (LBP). It started research on laser as a means of writing as early as 1962. However it was unable to develop a practical laser source and hence could not acquire the patents it had applied for due to which the research and development was suspended.

In the 1970s when lasers came into practical application fields Canon resumed its research on laser beam printers and developed the LBP’s of today combining their electro photographic technologies with laser technology.

The development of lasers imprinting also gave birth to a number of high-speed copy machines by Canon such as The NP-8500, the world’s first retention-type copying machine in 1978.

The NP-8500 SUPER, an ultrahigh speed-copying machine capable of producing 135 copies per minute 1981; and the PC-10 and PC-20, the world’s first personal copying machines with replaceable cartridges were introduced by Canon in 1982.

In 1984 Canon gave the world its LBP-8/CX, the smallest and lightest laser beam printer.

Today Canon develops technology that couples direct printing options from Cell phones equipped with a digital camera, hence integrating printing technology with photography! One such latest technology is the direct wireless printing from a camera! The printing is achieved using infrared and Bluetooth communication technology embedded in the cell phones or PCs. Being wireless no cables are required, and the image quality parallels that of printouts from PCs using memory cards.

One important feature Canon uses to achieve real true to life image quality on paper is:

Color reproduction: The color range of digital cameras (YCC) is much wider, making it possible to capture a vast amount of color information when shooting. To achieve similar quality Canon added red ink and green ink, which offers high brightness and chromaticity, to the six existing inks in their inkjet printers, raising the saturation of the red and green output range by 1.6 times and 1.2 times respectively. The result is photo image output with improved depth and translucence, and color reproduction comparable to that of prints from photo film.