The Drawing Centre

Engineered for speed and precision, this 44" large-format printer is an ideal solution for the Technical Documents market. For printing complex full-colour renderings, GIS maps, as well as CAD, MCAD and ECAD drawings and documents, the imagePROGRAF iPF815 and IPF820 are premier printing solutions. With exceptional line accuracy, high-speed-throughput, an 160GB hard drive, and on-board support for HP-GL/2 and HP RTL files, printing in large-format with incredible detail is quick and effortless.

Equipped with dual media rolls, the iPF825 eliminates the cause of many bottlenecks in busy printing environments. Automatically switch between different media type, sizes or use two rolls of the same paper for printing of large, consecutive runs.

The advanced features of the iPF815 and iPF825 allow for enhanced productivity in the most demanding environments. Its built-in 160GB hard drive makes handling multiple complex jobs simple, especially in shared printer environments. Relieve workload from your computer, store and retrieve print jobs with the touch of a button, and utilize a Remote User Interface and password-protected mailboxes to keep your workgroup productive. The iPF815's Economy Print Mode helps lower cost per print while it's sub-ink-tank system enables on-the-fly ink replacement for continuous printing. Add a stacker and large format scanner and realize maximum productivity in any environment.

Productivity: Print Longer Without Interruption

Canon's unique sub-ink tank system means you can replace ink on-the-fly without stopping the printer. Choose extra large 700ml ink tanks for even greater productivity. For long print runs, a high-capacity media basket comes standard with the iPF815. Add the optional high-capacity stacker for even greater print yields when printing on plain paper.

The optional stacker provides a flat surface to offload prints and eliminates the need for operator handling. Built for high productivity, this stacker automatically picks up documents of mixed document sizes and stacks them up to 300 sheets.

High-Speed Printing: L-COA processor

Canon's advanced system architecture achieves print speeds up to 688 ft./hr.2 on uncoated media. When you need to keep projects moving forward and meet deadlines, this kind of speed is critical. Output two D-size (24″x36″) drawings per minute or print a full colour, 2400x1200 dpi high resolution A0 size image with full graphic coverage on heavyweight coated paper in only three minutes. Powering these incredible print speeds is Canon's L-COA processor, at the heart of every imagePROGRAF printer.

The L-COA (Large Format Printer COmmon Architecture) print controller drives the imagePROGRAF print engine to lay down ink with exceptional speed and precision. This unique, high-speed processor enables the print system to process large volumes of data while optimizing output of complex high-colour GIS images and architectural renderings for maximum readability and colour accuracy.

Precision Printing: High-Density Print Head

Engineered for advanced image production, the iPF815 and iPF825 boast Canon's latest print-head technology to lay down ink with unprecedented speed and accuracy. These printers use a high-precision, high-density print head with a total of 15,360 nozzles to lay down 4 picoliter-size ink droplets that produce sharp detail and excellent image quality. The result is consistently accurate 2400 x 1200 dpi output with fine lines that are accurate to ± 0.10% and as thin as 0.02mm.

160GB Hard Drive

A built-in 160GB hard drive within the printer increases productivity by relieving workload from the host PC, while providing a large capacity for print job data storage, and retrieval. This 160GB hard drive enables job data to be stored in protected mailboxes for easy access via web browser or at the printer for job re-printing. The embedded hard disk is ideal for medium to large workgroups to share a printer efficiently with multiple users, offering ample job storage space. 

Accounting Manager

The Accounting Manager serves as a powerful feature, used for accurate management of printing costs and other information that is increasingly important in today's economic environment. With Accounting Manager feature you can track how much ink and paper is being consumed when printing large format output. Costs can be assigned to the ink and paper to determine expenses based on your own "Cost of goods". Each individual ink tank can have its own cost associated to it, as well as a variety of different paper types. The user can also input a variable cost that will be added to the total of the print cost. The data is exportable to a .csv format for Microsoft Excel so the data can be used for billing purposes. This feature will allow you to determine the cost of each print based on your actual cost.

Features include:

· Log Recording Time
· Job Name
· Job Owner
· Client Job ID
· Client Job Submission Time
· Job Completion Time
· Job Completion State
· Ink consumption per job
· Media Type
· Number of completed pages
· Media consumption area per job

Economy Print Mode

Reduce total ink consumption by utilizing the Economy Print Mode for producing draft prints on select media. This feature regulates the use of all inks to produce quick check plots while minimizing the cost per print.

Reactive Ink System

Ideal for technical applications, Canon's breakthrough 5-colour dye/pigment Reactive Ink technology utilizes four highly colourfast dye inks for producing bold, expressive colour, plus two channels of matte black ink for printing precise lines, smooth curves and small text on technical and office documents. These Canon inks provide superior adhesion to media, scratch and marker resistance and ensure minimal "bleeding" between colours and text. Even small text printed on coloured backgrounds or on uncoated technical papers is crisp and legible.

HDI Driver

With the Canon HDI Driver for AutoCAD application, the driver creates a vector graphical representation of the printed data. Here, points are defined and a curved line is calculated mathematically in order to achieve precision. The HDI Driver creates a graphically accurate drawing of the printed data.

Features

·Exact page size that corresponds with the actual print size
·Print Type setting
·Print Quality settings
·Colour Mode setting
·Brightness slide bar setting
·Black ink print feature
·Advanced media settings

Canon Printer Driver

This Windows® and Macintosh® drivers incorporate simplified page setup options, one-touch borderless printing, expanded colour settings, and much more into a printer driver that is intuitive and easy-to-operate while still giving even the most advanced users the tools needed to stay productive.

The Real Preview feature lets users ensure that the print setting and the layout on the roll paper is correct by providing real time preview, allowing users to change the print setting even after clicking on "print." The Free Layout feature enables nesting and custom layouts of images or files of nearly any type (available for both Windows and Mac driver).

The imageRUNNER Enlargement Copy feature built-in to the printer driver lets users transfer data from their Colour imageRUNNER device with Universal Send to the imagePROGRAF printer - all with the touch of a button - enabling users to easily create posters from hard copy documents.

At a Glance

·Easy-to-use preset document profiles (examples are Poster, CAD, Photo)
·Automatic print quality options dependent on print application and media
·Real Preview that lets users change document and printer settings after clicking "print"
·Page nesting feature with Free Layout for Windows and Mac
·imageRUNNER Enlargement Copy feature - with a hot folder solution to print Colour imageRUNNER PDFs directly without opening in a PDF viewer
·Economy Print Mode
·Borderless printing
·Easy setting/Advanced setting

PosterArtist Lite

Canon's included PosterArtist Lite poster creation software gives users the ability to quickly and easily create professional large format prints. Users simply follow the program's four (4) easy steps to create posters that can be used in applications such as office presentation, trade shows, retail signage, and much, much more. The PosterArtist QuickCopy feature provides an easy solution for a CanoScan desktop scanner to be used as a copier, making letter-size flyers and documents into full-size posters with a touch of a button.

For those with more demanding poster creation needs, Canon's optional PosterArtist offers advanced features such as Auto Design, Variable Data, and in-application image editing features, as well as additional templates, royalty-free photos, and clip art. The built-in weblink featured in PosterArtist Lite links users directly to the PosterArtist website for useful hints and tips, and even more free contents for download.

PosterArtist (Optional, PC only)

PosterArtist is a poster creation software program designed to be used by all levels of users to create professional posters, banners and signage in just four easy steps. This template-driven poster creation tool for PCs was developed by Canon specifically to create large-format posters quickly and easily. PosterArtist provides over 200 professionally designed templates, and over 1000 royalty-free images and clip art that can be quickly customized and outputted to a variety of media. You can even import your own images such as company logos and digital camera photos. With PosterArtist, now you can quickly customize and print posters, banners, signs, and eye-catching displays.