Canon’s new DreamLabo 5000 production inkjet printer marks the company’s entry into the commercial photo printing market.
Canon’s new DreamLabo 5000 production inkjet printer marks the company’s entry into the commercial photo printing market.
Canon’s new DreamLabo 5000 production inkjet printer. (Source: Canon.)
Designed for the retail photo printing and the high-end print-on-demand (POD) markets, the DreamLabo 5000 uses inkjet technology and produces output quality that rivals (or exceeds) conventional silver halide technology. It is also more environmentally benign.
Incorporating Canon’s FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) technology, the DreamLabo 5000 uses a seven-colour dye-based ink system with cyan, magenta, yellow, black, grey, photo cyan and photo magenta inks. A high-density print head produces superior detail in both photos and text. The DreamLabo 5000 can produce output up to 305 mm wide and is capable of printing the contents of a 20-page A4-size photo album in just 80 seconds. It can also output 40 snapshot-sized (102 x 152mm) photo prints in just one minute. Other output options include greeting cards, calendars, full-colour brochures and leaflets and print-on-demand illustrated book production. In fact, any document that combines text with images will look better when printed with this technology that from rival offset and silver halide systems.
Examples of the output from the DreamLabo 5000, displayed at the official launch in late March.
The first Australian installation of the DreamLabo 5000 has been at the Melbourne company, Pictureworks, which will offer an ‘HD’ range of photo book printing services from the new machine. Details of the range of photo books available can be found at http://www.albumworks.com.au.
