Luminous Landscape have just published a show report from the Photo Imaging Expo in Tokyo, which is Japan’s biggest photography show, including news of 3 pigment-based large format printers from Canon - the Canon W8400, Canon W6400 and Canon W2200S.

“More interesting were the new Canon large format printers W6400 (A1) and W8400 (B1). These were released in Japan just a week ago. They seem to offer 2400*1200 DPI at 4 pl and use 7 inks (Bk, MBk, C, M, Y, PC and PM). Just like on the Epson printer, one black is for glossy paper, the second one is for matte paper. The W6400 can print up to 609*18000 mm, while the W8400 can go up to a paper width of 1117 mm. They are able to do exact borderless prints on A and B standards papers. The default print drivers ships with .icc profiles for the Canon papers compatible with this printer (at least Glossy photo and semi-gloss photo). Canon does also market 12 meters rolls of Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 188 and 308 for the 2 printers.”

Website: Luminous Landscape - Photo Imaging Expo Report

Further information on Canon’s new large-format printers can be found here:

Website: JCN Network - Canon Introduces Versatile New Large-format Inkjet Printers