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Canon Latin America Group announces a new low cost, ink efficient printer to the existing PIXMA E-Series lineup
New PIXMA E471 Printer Helps Provide Cost Savings for Budget Conscious Users.
MELVILLE, N.Y., July 26, 2016 - Canon U.S.A., Inc., Latin America Group, a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today a new PIXMA printer joining the existing PIXMA E-Series printer lineup for the Peruvian and Colombian 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, adds the new: PIXMA E471 Wireless1 Inkjet All-In-One Printer. Home and cost- conscious users in particular will be impressed with the latest addition to the PIXMA E-series printer line, which combines valuable benefits such as ease-of-use, low operating costs and printing functionalities ideal for day-to-day use. This new printer features cost-effective ink cartridges, which can result in significant cost savings and added flexibility for users with varied printing needs or those who may 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 E471 printer provides users with low-cost ink cartridges, so increased savings and key printing capabilities can go hand-in-hand."
The PIXMA E471 printer features 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 compatible mobile device to the printer directly, removing the need for an external wireless access point, such as a router. Additionally, the printer model is compatible with two applications designed to make printing easy – the Canon PRINT2 application, and the Easy- PhotoPrint+3 application. For mobile users, the free Canon PRINT application provides users with direct access to the cloud from their compatible smartphone or tablet through PIXMA Cloud Link4 to easily print and scan images and documents from several of the most popular online social platforms and services, such as Instagram*, Facebook®, Twitter®, Flickr®, Photobucket®, Dropbox®, Evernote®, Creative Park and Creative Park Premium along with the newly-supported Google DriveTM and Microsoft® OneDriveTM. 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.
The Canon PIXMA E471 printer offers fast print speeds of approximately 8.0 images per minute (ipm) for black5 and white prints, and 4.0 ipm for color5. Additionally, the compact size of this printer enables the printer to fit in select 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 E471 printer can make printing more affordable for home users by enabling them to print up to 400 pages6 in black and white, and up to 300 pages6 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 E471 printer. This printer helps students to shine when printing school papers and projects affordably, while home- users can enjoy reliable printing at a low printing cost.
Other key functions of the new PIXMA E471 include Wireless PictBridge7 which allows compatible Canon digital cameras to connect directly to the printer - eliminating the need of a computer. Additionally, this printer features a paper tray that holds up to 60-sheets of letter-size plain paper or up to 20 sheets of 4" x 6" photo paper or up to 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 $31 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranked third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2015† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies in 2015. 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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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. Wireless products are not available in some countries.
2. Requires an Internet connection and the Canon PRINT app, available for free on the App Store and at Google Play™. Compatible with iOS 7.0 or later and Android 4.0 or later. User must register printer with Canon PRINT and be a registered member of the compatible online Cloud service(s) user chooses to access through Canon PRINT 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 wireless network.
3. Works edited by using this application cannot be displayed, edited, or printed without this application. Compatible with Android device of seven inches or more using Chrome (latest version compatible with your current version of Android OS), iOS Devices of seven inches or more using Safari 7.0 or later.
4. Requires an Internet connection.
5. ISO/IEC 24734 defines the default print 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.
6. Ink yield may vary depending on texts/photos printed, applications software used, print mode and type of paper used. Declared yield value in accordance with ISO/IEC 24711 standard. Values obtained by continuous printing.
7. PictBridge (Wireless LAN) certified printer is required.
