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Canon introduces new low cost ink efficient PIXMA E-Series printers
New PIXMA E481, E461 and E401 Printers Help Provide Cost Savings for Budget Conscious Users
MELVILLE, N.Y., January 27, 2015 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., Latin America Group, a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today a new PIXMA printer lineup for the Latin America markets. The PIXMA E-Series printers, designed to provide users with increased savings and affordability with low cost ink cartridges as compared to the traditional PIXMA printers, consists of three new printers: the PIXMA E481 Wireless1 Inkjet Office All-In-One, the PIXMA E461* Wireless1 All-In-One and PIXMA E401* All-In-One printers. Home and cost-conscious users in particular will be impressed with the latest additions to the PIXMA printer line, which combine ease-of-use, low operating costs and printing functionalities ideal for day-to-day use. These printers feature cost-effective ink cartridges, which can result in significant cost savings and added flexibility for users with varied printing needs or those who have limited their printing due to the price of the ink.
“Canon always works to provide customers with cost-effective solutions that make printing easier and more accessible,” said Kenji Kobayashi, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Canon U.S.A. Latin America Group. “The new Canon PIXMA E-Series of printers provides users with low-cost ink cartridges, so increased savings and key printing capabilities can go hand-in-hand.”
The PIXMA E481 and PIXMA E461* printers feature advanced wireless connectivity capabilities, providing users with the flexibility to print jobs from nearly anywhere in their home or office. One such capability is Access Point Mode, which allows users to connect a mobile device to the printer directly, removing the need for an external wireless access point, such as a router. Additionally, the printers are compatible with two applications designed to make printing easier – the PIXMA Printing Solutions2 (PPS) application, and the Easy-PhotoPrint+ application. PPS provides users with direct access to the cloud from their smartphone or tablet through PIXMA Cloud Link3 to easily print and scan images and documents from several of the most popular online social platforms and services, such as Facebook®, Twitter®, Flickr®, Photobucket®, Dropbox®, Evernote®, Creative Park and Creative Park Premium along with the newly-supported Google DriveTM and Microsoft® OneDrive™. Easy-PhotoPrint+, a free web-based application, provides users with access to photos from their local drive or social platforms to create a large variety of editing options on different mediums, including photo prints, collages, calendars, cards, layouts and stickers.
Featuring a compact design that is 30 percent smaller than previous models, the PIXMA E481 printer is ideal for users looking to save space in areas such as a home office, while maintaining all of the traditional, easy-to-use office features necessary for day-to-day use, including advanced wireless connectivity and fast print speeds. The Canon PIXMA E481 printer offers multiple office printing benefits including an automatic document feeder (ADF)4, borderless printing5, fax function, and fast print speeds of approximately 8.8 images per minute (ipm) for black6 and white prints, and 4.4 ipm for color6. Additionally, the compact size of the PIXMA E481 printer enables the printer to fit in areas with limited space. The printer also offers durable and high-quality printing with a four-color hybrid ink system that combines dye ink for vivid colors and black pigment ink for sharp text. The PIXMA E481 printer can make printing more affordable for home office users by enabling them to print up to 400 pages in black and white, and up to 300 pages in Color with the new low-cost high-yield capacity ink cartridges.
Students and home cost-conscious users in particular will be delighted with the PIXMA E401* printer. Extremely easy to set up, this model not only combines convenient and powerful printing capabilities; it also features highly affordable ink cartridges. This allows students to shine when printing school papers and projects affordably, while home-users can enjoy reliable printing at a low printing cost.
The PIXMA E461* and E401* printers utilize a FINE ink cartridge system, and are compatible with high-yield capacity ink cartridges, which have the ability to generate more prints per cartridge compared to other printers of the same range. This effectively reduces printing costs and downtime when changing cartridges. Additionally, both printers feature a paper tray that holds 60-sheets of letter-size plain paper or 20 sheets of 4” x 6” photo paper or 10 sheets of 5” x 7” photo paper, making the printers ideal for home printing projects, such as printing family photos or recipes.
For more information about the complete lineup of PIXMA printers available in Latin America, please visit www.cla.canon.com.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding Mexico) markets. With approximately $36 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranked third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2013† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies in 2014. In 2014, Canon U.S.A. received the PCMag.com Readers’ Choice Award for Service and Reliability in the digital camera and printer categories for the 11th consecutive year. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings.
† Based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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* Only available in the Peruvian and Colombian markets.
Availability and specifications of all products are subject to change without notice.
1. Wireless printing requires a working network with wireless 802.11 b/g/n capability. Wireless performance may vary based on terrain and distance between the printer and wireless network clients.
2. Requires an Internet connection and the PIXMA Printing Solutions (“PPS”) app, available for free on the App Store and at Google Play™. Compatible with iPad®, iPhone® 3GS or later, and iPod touch® 3rd generation or later devices running iOS 5.1 or later, and Android™ mobile devices running Android 2.3.3 or later. User must register printer with PPS and be a registered member of the compatible online Cloud service(s) user chooses to access through PPS and is subject to the terms and conditions of those services. Certain functions (scanning and printing locally stored photos/documents) require your device to be connected to the same working network with wireless 802.11 b/g/n capability as your printer. For users of compatible Apple mobile devices, document printing requires Apple AirPrint, which requires an AirPrint-enabled printer connected to the same network as your iOS device. A printer connected to the USB port of your Mac, PC, AirPort™ Base station, or Time Capsule® is not supported.
3. PIXMA Cloud Link requires an Internet connection.
4. ADF holds up to 20 sheets A4/LTR, or up to 5 sheets of LGL plain paper.
5. Envelopes and High Resolution Paper are NOT supported for borderless printing.
6. ISO/IEC 24734, 29183 define the default print and copy speed measurement methods. Print speeds are the averages of ESAT in Office Category Test for the default simplex mode, ISO/IEC 24734, excluding time to print the first set. Copy speed is the average of FCOT, ISO/IEC 29183 Annex D. ADF copy speed is the average of ESAT in General Performance Test for the default simplex mode, ISO/IEC 29183, excluding time to copy the first set. Photo print speeds are based on the standard mode driver setting using photo test pattern(s) and select Canon Photo Paper. Print speed is measured as soon as first page begins to feed into printer and will vary depending on system configuration, interface, software, document complexity, print mode, type of paper used, and page coverage.
