The new 6-color pigment ink system adds Red ink to the standard lineup of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and Matte Black, to help produce posters, infographics and POP materials with vibrant color. This helps create output that’s suitable for small retail stores, restaurants, or service businesses that produce their own in-store posters on the premises.

The compact design of the iPF6400SE printer reduces the space required for installation, making this model especially attractive for small stores or offices.

A color profile is included that’s designed specifically for posters to make full use of the LUCIA EX ink system’s strengths in color reproduction. The user simply selects “Poster” as the print target in the printer driver, to achieve vibrant color reproduction optimized for poster printing. The same profile is also provided in PosterArtist (optional), PosterArtist Lite, and the Print Plug-In for Office.

The iPF6400SE printer supports ink tank sizes of both 130ml and 300ml in capacity. Ink tank replacement becomes less frequent and users with higher printing volumes can enjoy greater productivity.

An ink tank system designed for uninterrupted printing even during tank replacement. The iPF6400SE printer keeps ink in reserve in its sub ink tanks so that even when the tanks themselves run out of ink, printing can continue without interruption and the tanks can be replaced on the fly.

The Draft Mode produces 1200 x 1200 dpi output at up to 562ft²/hr on coated and uncoated paper stocks while reducing ink consumption by 10% to 20% versus standard mode.

Significantly reduce total ink consumption by utilizing the Economy Printing Mode for producing draft prints on select media. This feature increases overall speed and regulates the use of all colors to produce quick check plots while minimizing the cost per print. In this mode, overall color density is reduced to cut ink consumption by up to 50% compared to Standard mode, and ink consumption is cut by up to 15% when compared to the 8-Color S series of imagePROGRAF printers.

Engineered for speed and advanced image production, the iPF6400SE printer boasts Canon’s thermal print head technology that helps lay down ink with incredible speed and accuracy. This printer uses a high-precision, high-density print head with a total of 15,360 nozzles. The twin lines of nozzles for each color on the print head enables the printer to minimize the number of printing passes and still maintain print quality. The 1-inch PF series print head boasts all 6 colors with 2,560 nozzles per color. More nozzles mean more ink is ejected with every pass of the print head, no matter what print mode or media.

Canon’s included PosterArtist Lite poster creation software gives users the ability to quickly and easily create professional large format prints. Users simply follow the program’s four (4) easy steps to create posters that can be used in applications such as Office presentation, Trade shows, Retail Signage, and much, much more. The PosterArtist QuickCopy feature provides an easy solution for a CanoScan desktop scanner to be used as a copier, making letter-size flyers and documents into full-size posters with a touch of a button. New enhancements include an image correction function that automatically corrects image colors, and a cut-out function that allows users to remove selected areas of an image.

Canon’s Direct Print & Share software is a cloud portal solution that helps users to expand their printing workflow. Users are given the ability to upload documents to their own account using Google’s cloud service, and have those documents printed from almost anywhere††. Easily share or print PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs through the user-friendly interface, and even have the ability to do batch printing!

Tracks up to twenty (20) jobs and shows how much ink and media is being consumed when printing. Costs can be assigned to ink and paper to determine expenses based on “Cost of goods”. The user can also input a variable cost that will be added to the total of the print cost. The data is exportable to a .csv format for Microsoft Excel so the data can be used for billing purposes.

Features include:

• Job Cost (ink, Media and variable cost inputted by user)
• Ink Consumed per Job*
• Media Consumed per Job
• Job Completion time
• And more

*Ink usage is estimate, and error tolerance is ±15%

Recognizing the expanding array of media options for large format printers and to further improve the versatility of these new imagePROGRAF models, Canon has included its Media Configuration Tool, which allows customers to not only utilize Canon-branded media, but provides the ability to make adjustments to printer settings to enhance the precision and quality of output achieved with non Canon branded media.

Settings that can be configured using media parameter adjustment features include:

• Media weight and thickness
• Ink drying
• Automatic cutting settings
• Borderless printing
• Paper feed amount
• Print-head height
• Vacuum strength
• Maximum ink usage

This utility makes it easy to print large-format documents created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint software applications. The Plug-in appears in a tool bar inside the Microsoft application and has an easy-to-follow “Wizard”. The Plug-in will bypass the printer driver to simplify the printing process. A few simple steps convert your 8.5″ x 11″ office document to poster size.

For those with more demanding poster creation needs, Canon’s optional PosterArtist offers advanced features such as Auto Design, Variable Data, and in-application image editing features, as well as additional templates, royalty-free photos, and clip art. The built-in weblink feature in PosterArtist Lite links users directly to the PosterArtist website for useful hints and tips, and even more free contents for download. Visit www.usa.canon.com/posterartist for a free demo version to download.