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 you directly to the PosterArtist website for useful hints and tips, and for even more free content for download.

Enhanced features include:

• Direct Print & Share cloud portal support
• File format to allow for easy sharing of poster files

Visit www.usa.canon.com/posterartist for a free demo version to download.

This utility makes it easy to print large-format documents created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. The Print 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.

This specialized driver is compatible with a variety of AutoCAD software products and helps enable optimal printing productivity and reliability from the AutoCAD software. The module also has a user-friendly interface that includes familiar features such as free layout, test printing, and 1200 dpi rendering. This module is automatically loaded when printing is attempted from AutoCAD, ensuring a smooth workflow with optimal printing results each time.

Canon’s included PosterArtist Lite poster creation software gives you the ability to quickly and easily create professional large format prints. The program includes royalty-free photos, backgrounds and clip art, as well as pre-designed templates to get you started creating your own posters. You simply follow the programs four (4) easy steps to create posters that can be used in applications such as Office Presentations, Trade shows, Retail Signage, and much, much more.

Canon imagePROGRAF Accounting Manager tracks how much ink and media is being consumed while printing. Costs can be assigned to ink and paper to determine expenses based on “Cost of goods”. You can also input a variable cost that will be added to the total of the cost per print. The data is exportable to a .csv format for Microsoft Excel, from there the data can be used for billing purposes.

Accounting Features:

• Log Recording Time
• Job Name
• Client Job ID
• Client Job Submission Time
• Job Execution Time
• Job Completion Time
• Job Completion State
• Media Type
• Number of completed pages
• Media consumption area per job

The imagePROGRAF Status Monitor display will check the printer’s status in real time, allowing you to manage print jobs, media and monitor ink levels. Status Monitor includes an Ink Purchase Notification Function that will notify you when the ink is low and provides you with a link to a website where the tank can be purchased, or the contact information to a trusted supplier. What appears exactly can be selected depending on your preference.

These Windows® and Macintosh® drivers incorporate simplified page setup options, one-touch borderless printing, expanded color settings, and much more into a printer driver that is intuitive and easy-to-operate.

The Real Preview feature allows you to check the print setting and the layout on the roll paper by providing a real time preview, giving you the option to change the print setting even after clicking “print.” The Free Layout feature enables nesting and custom layouts of images or files of nearly any type (available for both Windows and Mac driver).

The imageRUNNER Enlargement Copy feature built-in to the printer driver lets you transfer data from their Color imageRUNNER device with Universal Send to the imagePROGRAF printer – all with the touch of a button – allowing you to easily create posters from hard copy documents.

At a Glance:

1. Easy-to-use preset document profiles (examples are Poster, CAD, Photo)
2. Automatic print quality options dependent on print application and media
3. Real Preview that allows you to change the document and printer settings after clicking “print”
4. Page nesting feature with Free Layout for Windows and Mac
5. imageRUNNER Enlargement Copy feature – with a hot folder solution to print Color imageRUNNER PDFs directly without opening in a PDF viewer
6. Economy Print Mode
7. Borderless printing
8. Easy setting/Advanced setting

imagePROGRAF Print Utility is Canon’s mobile app for wireless printing via an Apple® iPad® to an imagePROGRAF printer2. Through use of the app, users have the ability to preview their PDF file, utilize some of the great basic settings seen in their Canon Printer Driver such as selecting the number of copies, orientation, and quality, and then send their print to one of the imagePROGRAF 5-Color Printers sharing the same network. imagePROGRAF Print Utility is available for download free of charge through the iTunes App StoreSM.

Sharing ideas has never been easier with Canon’s Direct Print & Share software. Direct Print and Share is a cloud portal and batch printing solution that helps you expand your printing workflow1. Available as a free download, this software allows you to upload documents to your account using any WebDAV compliant1 cloud service, and have these documents printed from almost anywhere. Easily share and/or print .cpfx PosterArtist, PDFs, TIFFs, JPEGs, and HP-GL/2 files. In addition, you can set-up hot folders on your desktop by clicking the Shortcut Print feature, then simply drag and drop the files you wish to print into these folders and the job will start automatically. You can even set up multiple folders, each with their own customized settings, allowing for multiple jobs to be run with ease.

The 5-Color ink set (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and matte black) found in the imagePROGRAF iPF670E printer is ideal for a variety of different applications including posters, and technical documents. This ink technology utilizes four highly colorfast dye inks for producing bold, expressive color, plus two channels of pigment matte black ink for printing precise lines, smooth curves and small text on technical and office documents. Canon inks provide superb adhesion to media, scratch and marker resistance and help ensure minimal “bleeding” between colors and text. Even small text printed on colored backgrounds or on uncoated technical papers is crisp and legible on an imagePROGRAF printer.

The iPF670E printer supports 90ml size ink tanks (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, matte black).

Canon’s Sub-Ink tank system allows virtually all of the available ink in a tank to be used before having to replace it, helping eliminate any wasted ink. The empty tanks can also be replaced on-the-fly without stopping the printer. This is extremely useful during long print jobs.

The Economy print mode helps reduce the total ink consumption. This feature regulates the use of all inks to produce quick check plots to help minimize your cost per print.

Engineered for speed and advanced image production, this printer boasts Canon’s print head technology that lays down ink with exceptional speed and accuracy. The PF-04 print head incorporates a nozzle orifice shape to help minimize mist spray, producing clean lines and text. The high-precision, high-density print head, with a total of 15,360 nozzles, lays down 4 picoliter-size ink droplets that produce sharp detail and excellent image quality. The result is consistently accurate 2400 x 1200 dpi output with fine lines that are accurate to ±0.10% and as thin as 0.02mm.