Canon’s new imageRUNNER ADVANCE printers mean business

When you’re running a business, printers often represent one of the heftier running costs and having something reliable means having to spend less time on repairs, downtime and much less grief in the bargain. Having something that delivers even better bang for the buck and quality in the bargain too sounds even better, which is what canon’s latest range of imageRUNNER ADVANCE series multifunctional C7500i and C5500i series printers aim to do.

The C560 Multifunction printer with additional optional attachments

The C7500i series is designed for large printing scale needs and larger offices with quality capable of meeting the needs of demanding colour environments with up to 2400 dpi resolution. It has a voluminous 300-sheet capacity document feeder, can scan and convert documents to PDF or other Microsoft Office file formats and has an intelligent smartphone-like interface to get about with pinch-zooming and swiping gestures. To avoid wasting paper on booboos, the printers have a Force Hold feature that lets you preview and edit print settings before it gets printed. A bunch of other nifty tweask have also been added including the ability to intelligently remove blank pages when scanning documents and it even detects accidental double-feeding during the scanning process too. Of course, it handles printing with a suitably dab hand as it sports Canon’s V2 colour tech for excellent colour reproduction quality.

The Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5560 printer

The Canon C5500i series printers also use V2 colour tech with  the ability to print up to 60ppm on letter size paper with up to 1200 dpi print resolution. It also much of the same abilities, including an intelligent sleep mode akin to the C7500i with motion sensors that detect movement and activates it as required, a smartphone-like touchscreen user interface, single and double sided scanning and is designed for more smaller, more mainstream use. For more details, swing by Canon’s website here.