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CMYKhub purchases first Canon Colorado XL Hybrid in Asia Pacific from Currie Group
27 May 2026
L-R Heath Burgess & Steven Badger - Canon Production Printing, Paul Whitehead - Currie Group
Trade print specialist CMYKhub has become the first company in the Asia Pacific region to purchase the Canon Colorado XL-series, the 3.4-metre hybrid UVgel printer. The printer was purchased from Currie Group at Fespa Barcelona last week, where it made its global debut.
“CMYKhub is already one of Australia’s most committed users of Canon’s UVgel technology, running six Colorado M5 1.6m printers across multiple sites nationwide. That depth of experience with the platform gave the business a level of confidence in the XL-series hybrid ” said Paul Whitehead Business Unit Manager – Sign and Display at Currie Group.
“The trust CMYKhub has built not only in UVgel technology and Canon, but also in Currie Group’s local support, service and partnership approach, was central to the purchasing decision. What the XL-series brings to the table over the existing 1.6-metre Colorado is not simply scale, but capability. The machine handles both flexible roll media and rigid substrates, opening up a significantly broader application gamut for a business that, until now, has operated within the 1.6-metre format.”
“The XL gives CMYKhub access to wider and rigid media applications it could not previously offer in UVgel technology, with the reliability and output consistency the company already knows from its current Colorado installations. “They know they’re reliable, they can put them into any location, and it will perform really consistently” Whitehead said — a quality that matters enormously when you’re running production equipment across multiple locations at trade volume.
“We are really happy with our existing Canon Colorado fleet — the speed and quality is outstanding. This machine allows us to retire some outdated equipment and bolster our existing UVgel Canon equipment providing consistency across the board. This machine has the added bonus of being flexible in its use to enable us to run rolls and rigid media through it, which will provide redundancy to our flatbed printers,” said Alan Nankervis, CMYKhub National Wide Format Manager.
The Colorado XL-series is built on the same UVgel foundation as its smaller sibling, using Canon’s gel-based inkjet technology to produce durable, high-quality output suited to a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications. The addition of rigid media brings the XL-series into a broader market — one where CMYKhub can leverage its trade offering and, in turn, give its print customers access to a wider range of substrates and finished products through a single, trusted supplier.
For Currie Group, securing CMYKhub as the first XL-series customer in the region is a meaningful commercial milestone. Currie Group is now looking ahead to a broader market launch — an event planned for later this year that, while not yet announced in detail, is expected to give the local industry its first hands-on exposure to the machine.
Whitehead is confident the response will be strong. “We think that once people come in to see it, it’ll be the first of many,” he said. “UVgel has steadily built a loyal following in the ANZ wide-format market on the strength of its print quality, media flexibility and low-maintenance reliability. With the XL-series extending those qualities to a 3.4-metre format with rigid capability, the platform is well placed to attract a new wave of investment from operators looking to expand their application range without moving away from a technology they already know and trust” concludes Whitehead.
