Canon India launches 85 new digital imaging products

23.10.2008
Canon announced the pre-Diwali launch of 85 new digital imaging products on Wednesday. A press release issued by the company claims that this is Canon's biggest product launch ever in India. The launch includes digital cameras, digital video camcorders, printers, All-in-Ones, digital copiers, software applications, cable ID printers, card printers etc.

The release further states that the products launched include Canon's entry into two new categories of cable ID printers and card printers exclusively used for printing and writing electronic information on plastic cards. The card printers offer edge-to-edge capability for the production of drivers licenses, employee badges, government and college ID cards, prepaid phone cards, IC chip cards, and other identification cards and badges.

The system can print one single-side card every 25 seconds (edge-to-edge format) and one dual-side card every 52 seconds (edge-to-edge format) using an automatic card flip-over feature. Canon will be distributing these through a national distributor based in Pune called Onyx.

Along with the launch of 85 new products from Canon, Canon also introduced the EOS 5D Mark II a D-SLR camera which enables still photography even while shooting movies with the Digic IV Photo Processor for Canon digital cameras.