Us President Barack Obama's Official Photo

The first time a US President’s official portrait was taken with a digital camera. The photo was taken on January 13, 2009 by a newly appointed official White House photographer, Pete Souza.

According to the reliable source, official photo of US President Barack Obama was taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. There is no disclosure of information on what printer was used to print the portrait of US President Barack Obama. Possibly it was printed by the Canon iPF8100 or iPF9100 as well.

Live Demonstration of Canon ImageCLASS Laser AiO Multi Functions Printer

‘Seeing is believing’, this is what we normally heard of. Unfortunately, we are unable to witness the performance of printers like large format printers or laser AiO (All-in-one) multi functions (Fax-print-copy-scan-network) printers before a purchase decision is being made.

What can we rely on for decision making and comparison a part from seeing the live demonstrations? Yes, the alternate resources are brochures, specifications sheets, and advise from the counter sales persons. The questions are how reliable are they and how well can you understand the jargons used in those materials?

Due to the concern of the above mentioned, I had actually posted 2 write-ups on where you can witness the live performance Canon iPF8100, iPF710, iPF810 and iPF9000 in Klang Valley at this blogs.

For this round, I am going share with you the Canon imageCLASS MF4300 series key competencies as well as and where are the retail outlets that can you see, touch and try the Canon ImageCLASS laser AIO series like MF4320d, MF4350d, MF4370dn and MF4380dn,

Competitive Advantages of the new Canon imageCLASS MF4300s:
1. Copy and Print Speed at >20pages per minute (A4) depending on models
2. Print Resolution: 1200dpi X 600dpi
3. Copy Resolution: 600dpi X 600dpi
4. Auto-duplex print by standard
5. Productivity by UFRII Lt and Duplex ADF (MF4380dn)
6. Fastest warm-up time (less than 10 seconds)
7. FCOT (less than 9 seconds)
8. Quick recovery time from sleep mode (less than 2 seconds)
9. Energy saving with lowest power consumption (approx. 3W)
10. Environment top runner (TEC Rating from 0.8 – 1.05 kWh/wk depending on models)
11. Compact in size

Retail spots for Canon imageCLASS MF4300s demonstrations:

Canon Lifestyle Concept Stores @ Mid Valley Megamall Kuala Lumpur
Lot S-051, 2nd Floor,
Mid Valley Megamall, Mid Valley City,
Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel : +603-2282 7037
Fax : +603-2284 9563
Contact Person: Mr Peter Choo
E-mail: acc@fotokem.intranet.com.my

Canon Lifestyle Concept Stores @Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur
Lot 5.30,
Pavilion Kuala Lumpur,
168, Jalan Bukit Bintang
55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603-2144 6200
Fax: +603-2144 6201
Contact Person: Mr Jacky Ho

Canon Lifestyle Concept Stores @1 Utama, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya
LG 315B, Lower Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +603-7726 8861
Email: digilux@streamyx.com
Contact Person: Ms. Kok Wai Fong

Stone-Mashe Sdn Bhd @ Taman Danau Desa, KL
9G Jalan 5/109F,
Plaza Danau 2
58100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-7984 4668, +6016-3100 103
Email: Jeremy@stone-mashe.com
Contact Person: Jeremy Cheong

Large format printers for copy centres

What are the large format printing services that the consumers are expecting? Basically, the services are as below:

1. Plan printing and copying (black & white, color)
2. CAD plotting.
3. Architectural drawings.
4. Posters printing.
5. Photos printing.

By knowing the market expectations, it is not difficult for the copy centres business owner to choose the right large format printers.

Ideally, a unit of Canon iPF810 (5-color) and a unit of Canon iPF8100 (12-color) are the complete solution to cope with the market requirement. The Canon iPF810 (44”) is the answer for both high quality and high speed for CAD, GIS and 3D printing applications. The Canon imagePROGRAF is still one of the highest speed wide format printers which able to print A1 and A0 size in draft mode in approximately 25 seconds and 56 seconds respectively. In short, the Canon iPF810 is the answer for plan printing and copying (both black & white and color), CAD plotting and architectural drawings.

Posters and photos printing applications are falls under Canon iPF8100 territory. The 12-color Canon imagePROGRAF series (Canon iPF8100, 44” and Canon iPF9100, 60”) is delivering superb print quality by the 2400dpi high resolution output. With the unique feature that measures the concentration change in printed patch chart using the internal processor and adapts by creating collection table based on the concentration characteristic readings. This can reduce the variation that can occur when using multiple printers and achieves dependable color reproduction.

High capacity ink tanks (ink cartridges) in 700ml are available for both Canon iPF810 and iPF8100. This enable the copy centres to be cost competitive as you are paying for inks instead of the packaging of ink cartridges.

Note: 
Canon iPF810 has been replaced by iPF815
Canon iPF8100 has been replaced by iPF8410
Canon iPF9100 has been replaced by iPF9410

The objectives of The Industrial Marking & Coding and Large Format Printing Technologies Blog

“Marco, I am in the midst of locating the speed comparison video that between Canon, HP and Epson large format printer from your website, can you help?”

One of the most reputable large format printer channel partners called me while I was driving back from work. He was calling me from Melacca as he wanted to show the speed performance of Canon 12-color series to his prospected customer who is running a production print business.

The phone call has given me utmost recognition and encouragement. It helps to remind me to be consistent in updating this blog and not forgetting the objectives of starting this website.

I started this website with 2 main objectives.

Objective 1: Posting informative write-ups and product reviews to share with users or potential buyers who are doing research and comparison via the Internet.

Objective 2: Make use of this website as a tool for field sales representative to utilise some content which is useful as sales & marketing tools.

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