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Canon Announces New Enhancements for Colorado M-Series Large-Format Printers

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Canon U.S.A. today announced the expansion of its Colorado M-series with multiple new features. The Colorado M-series is a modular 64” roll-to-roll large-format printer with optional UVgel white ink that Canon launched last year. The new features are available via a free firmware update, offering both new and existing customers the potential to expand their application range, including for the packaging and industrial print markets.

Among the upgrades is the new FLXfinish+ option, which enables the addition of matte, gloss, or mixed matte and gloss on the same print, without additional varnish. This advanced option allows for the creation of striking visual effects and textures, enhancing the tactile experience of the final product. It also streamlines the print process by limiting the need for post-print varnishing, helping to save time and reduce production costs.

Another new feature is FLXture, a five-ink-layer printing technology that allows users to add micro-texture to large-format prints for subtle surface detail, copying the feel of materials such as wood and leather. Creative print applications can be designed with an easy-to-use recipe in the PRISMAguide XL V3.4 software release, which intelligently prepares the layers of UVgel ink for printing. Whether the requirement is for a subtle background texture, embossed lettering, or to highlight parts of an image on high-value packaging, labels or other products, Canon says the FLXture option can enhance printed applications with additional surface textures without complicated combinations of different materials.

In a further step to help maximize productivity by reducing the need for roll changes for longer jobs, an updated Jumbo Roll Interface kit is now available, which enables the Colorado M series printer to handle jumbo rolls of various types of media, including transparent, structured, metallic, and dark-colored media.

Shinichi “Sam” Yoshida, executive vice president and general manager for Canon U.S.A., commented: “Leveraging the benefits of UVgel technology and the modularity of the Colorado M-series, the advances we’re announcing today focus on application diversification and automation. With these and future advances, we plan to continue to deliver innovations designed to provide our customers with competitive benefits by allowing them to increase their capabilities and helping them to tap into new creative applications, products and markets.”

This new technology will be shown on the Canon stand the drupa 2024 trade show currently being held in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

For more information about the Colorado M-series, visit Canon here.

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