Canon expands its PIXMA Ink Efficient G Series line-up to offer more options for homes as well as home-based and small businesses. With the increase in work from home and remote learning arrangements, there is also a higher need to print documents, essays, reports, and study materials at home. Canon’s latest refillable ink tank printers feature high ink volumes combined with improved page yield to offer low-cost printing. For easy maintenance, the new G Series includes a drip-free, hands-free ink refilling mechanism, and a user-replaceable maintenance cartridge design to ensure minimum downtime and maximum productivity for homes and businesses.
Right out of the box, the new Canon G series includes enough ink to last a long time for most users. The black-only documents page yield has been improved by 26% compared to existing G series models, with the new models delivering up to 7,600 pages with one black ink bottle. Page yield for colour documents has also been improved with the new models capable of printing 7,700 pages with one colour ink bottle. For businesses and homes with high print volumes, this increased page yield presents a more economical choice. The printers are suitable for both general use and photo printing, with crisp and sharp text in text documents and line drawings through the dedicated use of pigment black ink, and automatic switching to only dye-ink colour channels when there is a need to produce borderless glossy photos up to A4 sizes.
To avoid unintended filling of coloured inks into the wrong tank openings, the new Canon G series features new ink bottle designs, with outlet nozzles that fit only in the respective colour tank well openings. Ink filling is fast, drip-free, and hands-free, allowing users to complete the entire unboxing and setup process in just minutes, while maintaining a mess-free workstation. An integrated ink tank design also keeps the printer footprint compact, while providing clear visual indication of remaining ink levels.
The user-replaceable maintenance cartridge design of the new Canon G series coupled with the automatic reset of the internal ink counter prolongs the printer lifespan well beyond conventional printers and ensures users can continue to use the printer with minimal downtime.
These multi-function printers feature print, copy as well as scan functionalities, and are designed to boost productivity for home and small office environment. A 2-line LCD panel makes it easy to navigate printer settings and view the printer’s status information. Businesses with substantial daily printing requirements can benefit from higher document print speed of up to 10.8 ipm mono and 6.0 ipm colour for the PIXMA G3060.
Sporting wireless capabilities, users can also print and scan from iOS and Android mobile devices (smartphone, tablets and laptops) through the Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY app that offers fine-tuned control of all printer settings and parameters. For even easier direct printing from mobile devices, iOS uses can use AirPrint, while Android users can rely on the Canon Print Service plugin, available on the Play store.
Compatible with Google Assistant-enabled and Amazon Alexa-enabled products, users can print a wide range of items such as documents, colouring pages, message cards, and shopping lists by issuing voice commands to the printers via these virtual assistants. The virtual assistants can even inform users of the amount of ink left in the printer when prompted. Productivity is improved and users are empowered to perform a wide variety of tasks at any one time.
For users looking to print more than documents, the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Editor app for iOS, Android OS, Windows and Mac OS platforms is the perfect go-to app for all ID photo requirements, custom photo layouts, calendars, and postcard printing needs.
Using Canon’s free-for-download PosterArtist Lite, users can also make use of more than 1,300 pre-loaded templates, photos and clip art to design a wide range of flyers, posters suitable for different businesses.
