Canon Production Printing wins Buyers Lab Pacesetter Award

Keypoint Intelligence has awarded Canon the Buyers Lab (BLI) 2024-2025 Pacesetter Award in Wide Format Sustainability: Product Innovation. This award acknowledges Canon’s environmental improvements and initiatives in the wide format printing systems market through product innovation across its complete portfolio

Being awarded the Wide Format Sustainability Award for Product Innovation by Keypoint Intelligence acknowledges the innovative developments we’ve made in designing our wide format printing systems portfolio to be a sustainable solution our customers can rely on. At Canon, we operate according to the philosophy of Kyosei – a Japanese word that means ‘living and working together for the common good’. This philosophy is deeply ingrained in how we design and develop our products.  Product innovation is key in any R&D centre around the world, and we have actively defined sustainability and environmental impact as a key requirement for our future portfolio. This has led to numerous small and significant innovations that you see in every new product we release, most recently with the launch of our Colorado M-series with its modular design and in-field upgradability,” says Martijn van Hoorn, Senior Vice President of Research & Development at Canon Production Printing.

“We passionately believe this long-term strategy will change the way large format graphics and other applications are being produced for the better and will benefit our customers and the wider society.”

As part of the extensive assessment for the award, Keypoint Intelligence invited all document imaging companies to complete an exhaustive questionnaire detailing their environmental efforts and programs in various sustainability areas, including business operations, products, recycling, and goal tracking. Participating companies were also asked to make key personnel available for in-depth interviews with the Keypoint Intelligence analyst team to give a complete picture of their sustainability strategies. After gathering this data, analysts used a proprietary rating scale to determine the Pacesetter Award winners.

Eric Zimmerman, Principal Analyst and Director Wide Format Printing at Keypoint Intelligence, emphasises the significance of partnering with environmentally conscious manufacturers like Canon Production Printing, "Businesses have seen the results of becoming more eco-friendly, and by partnering with manufacturers like Canon, which are dedicated to environmental friendliness and place that central in their innovation, you are that much closer to achieving better sustainability."

Canon's commitment to innovation in sustainable wide-format printing technology is evident in its extensive portfolio, featuring the Colorado, Arizona, PlotWave and ColorWave lines of printers, and also in its award-winning CrystalPoint and UVgel ink technology.

The company says it actively strives to minimise the overall impact of its products throughout the complete product lifecycle. This starts with R&D and development – being engineered into the design and use – and continues to end of life and the reuse, refurbishment and remanufacturing of products and parts.

Canon is adopting energy-efficient LED curing technologies throughout its portfolio. With Canon’s award-winning, proprietary UVgel ink technology, customers can benefit from up to 40% less ink consumption than competitive technologies. UVgel technology also operates and produces output with zero volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions or hazardous air pollutants.

Canon products are designed with the circular economy in mind to contribute to a waste-less society. By innovatively designing its printers and products to be modular and for greater longevity, they are upgradable, enabling them to stay operational longer rather than being seen as disposable devices with a limited lifetime.