Ken Chaletzky - Founder of Copy General in the U.S.

Prior to this post, I posted an article remembering Paul Panitz, founder of Copy General in Europe. Below, I’m posting an article that was written in 2013 about Ken Chaletzky. Ken, along with Dirck Holscher (former owner of the Larry Hunt Newsletters), was the founder of Copy General in the Washington, DC area, was friends with Paul and was one of the owners of Copy General in Europe. This article mentions Roman Petr, who is still, today, the Managing Director of Copy General in Europe. (Roman is one of the smartest people you will ever meet.) “Ken Chaletzky - The Trailblazer” Article By Gordon J. Bernhardt, CPA, PFS, CFP®, AIF® - About Gordon J. Bernhardt President and founder of Bernhardt Wealth Management and author of Profiles in Success: Inspiration from Executive Leaders in the Washington D.C. Area. Ken Chaletzky’s father was in real estate. His father’s father was in real estate. His uncle and brother followed suit as well. With three Chaletzky generations diving into the field, Ken’s path seemed like a given. “All my life I thought I would go into the family business,” he recalls today. “That’s what I was groomed for. That’s what I expected.” After graduating from George Washington University, he headed down to Florida to begin working with his uncle, building condominiums and single-family homes. But what was supposed to be the beginning of a long, safe career working for a well-established family business lasted only a year and a half before Ken decided he needed to make his own way—a decision motivated by frustration with the family’s reluctance to embrace new ideas. “My uncle bought two lots that were only a block away from each other. And I said, ‘Let me handle one of them. I’ll use the same budget, and I’ll see what I can do with it.’ So we took the same model house, and I took some money out of certain areas and put it in the kitchen instead. I put in a self-cleaning oven, which was pretty novel back then, as well as an icemaker in the refrigerator and a few other things. To make a long story short, my house sold before it was finished being constructed. My uncle’s house, which he built the way he built all the others, didn’t sell for a couple of months after it was finished. And when it came time to build the next house, he still wanted to build it the old way.” Ken knew his need to innovate wouldn’t be satisfied in such an environment. He needed to trailblaze. With that, he headed off to the University of Pennsylvania’s MBA program, the Wharton School, with dreams of starting his own business. Today, Ken is the President and CEO of Copy General (CG), an innovative, industry-leading operation. Through a series of joint ventures, there are now 50 Copy General locations in five countries. His commitment to looking over the horizon has served him well in the ever- evolving copy business, and he’s worked hard to remove himself from the daily operation of the company so as to focus on its direction and evolution. “My job is to make sure we’re here five years from now,” he says with a smile. With this commitment in mind, Ken has led Copy General through several iterations. Today, Copy General is an all-digital printer specializing in technical documentation, direct mail marketing, training and education materials, but ever looking forward, it is committed to keeping pace with new technologies. “It isn’t what a layperson might think of as a traditional copy shop,” he points out. “Offset is what most people think of as ‘printing,’ with liquid inks, plates, and big monstrous presses gobbling up lots of paper. We don’t own any offset printing equipment—never have, never will. Instead, we print with large digital presses. In fact, we just took delivery of the Xerox iGen150, the first in the United States. At 32 feet long and about 4 or 5 tons, it prints very high quality color at 150 pages a minute. That’s where we invest our money—in new technologies.” That investment pays off in spades, as it allows Copy General to keep pace with the fast turnaround their customers have come to expect of digital services. In an industry that Ken estimates has shrunk by at least a third since its peak in the 1990s, the story of CG’s survival and success has been a series of leaps into the unknown. Although the company wouldn’t exist for years to come, the story begins back at George Washington University (GW), where Ken worked on the campus newspaper, The Hatchet, selling ads. Ever committed to his clients, his introduction to the printing world was almost accidental. “I was always on the business side, and I knew nothing about printing,” he remembers. “But I could envision what the customer wanted their ad to look like, and I didn’t know how to explain it to the printers. I taught myself how to use the equipment so I could make the ads up myself. To me, that was faster than trying to explain it to someone and saying, ‘No, not quite like that.’ So that’s how I ended up as the production manager and learned how to use all the equipment.” Just as fatefully, in 1969, Ken decided to hire an assistant, and the man for the job turned out to be his future business partner and Copy General’s co-founder, Dirck Holscher. In 1974, after graduating from GW and undergoing his short tenure in real estate, and after earning his MBA at Wharton, he and Dirck founded the first CG—Circle Graphics, a typesetting company. A few years after that, in 1979, they took a second leap. The copier in Circle Graphics’ Georgetown office broke down, and an employee was sent to make copies at the local copy shop, only to find it had shut down. “Oh, darn, perhaps we’ll have to start one ourselves,” Dirck had said half-jokingly, and an idea for expansion was born. The partners called their new business Copies of Georgetown, cannily preserving their CG logo and saving money on advertising. “We made about every mistake you could make, but we started to refine the model,” Ken details. “At one point we were the largest copy chain in Washington, with six stores all over the downtown business area, from Georgetown to the Air & Space Museum.” By that time, the name had changed to Copy General to reflect the growing size of the business and because, with the success of big companies like General Electric and General Motors, “general” was a buzzword of the day. Business suffered during the 1989 recession, but the partners again adapted. A site originally used for overflow work out in Sterling, Virginia, had to become self-sufficient as business dried up, and a team was sent to expand sales into Virginia. The effort was successful, and Copy General was officially operating outside D.C. The next leap took the business much further afield. Ever cognizant of the next opportunity, and ever eager to stay on the cutting edge, Ken received an offer too exciting to refuse. “My old editor from The Hatchet had sold his typesetting business and had a big chunk of change,” Ken remarks. “He was over in Eastern Europe when the Berlin Wall came down. He saw opportunity in the Eastern Bloc as a result of the fall of the Berlin Wall and came back to us and said, ‘How would you like to open a copy shop in Budapest?’ We thought he was a little nuts, but it was his money and our expertise, so we thought, “What the hell. This is going to be a lot of fun!’” Opening a business in Eastern Europe right after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc was hardly an easy feat, as it turned out. “Everything that had to be done, had to be done without a safety net—without any existing structures of support, or any models to look to for guidance,” Ken explains. “It took us a long time to get a store open, because in communist countries, there is no real estate because the government owns everything. You can’t just go to a commercial real estate agent because that infrastructure doesn’t exist, and there was very little retail space in Budapest. It took us almost a year before we finally found a retail location, which we dug out of the basement of an apartment building. But when our first store opened in June of 1991, it was an immediate success. People were lined up out of the door and down the sidewalk for the opportunity to make copies.” Their decision was bold enough to attract the attention of the New York Times, and the Sunday magazine wrote an article about their endeavors. After that initial success, the business continued to grow. In 1992, CG, now Copy General, opened another store in Prague. A year later, they made their debut in Warsaw, and in 1995, they opened their first store in Moscow. As with its adaptability back home, CG didn’t go into Eastern Europe expecting to copy and paste its success in the US. “A number of American franchises tried to set up operations there and were not successful,” Ken recalls. “The reason was that they came in with the American model and said, ‘We’re the Americans. We know how to do it, and here’s what it should be like.’ That approach doesn’t work. We, on the other hand, adapted to the locale we were in.” A big part of that adaptability involved getting to know the people who would be their customers and, in some cases, their employees. Paul Panitz, the former Hatchet editor who had put up the money for the expansion, insisted that they become a part of the community. “We were not allowed to stay in hotels, because how can you expect to build a company with these people when you’re staying in a hotel that costs nightly what they make in a month?” Ken poses. “Instead, we had a company flat in the working class area where our first store was, and that’s where Paul actually lived for 2 or 3 years.” Ken himself took the idea a step further and stayed on the outskirts of Budapest with a local family, who he remains close with today. “I visit them every time I go over there, and we ended up hiring their daughter and son-in-law to work for us,” he says. Today, CG’s overseas businesses are locally run. The managing director in Europe is a Prague local, Roman Petr. Another couple working with Paul to start the Czech operation were attempting to order some bread at a local bakery when they met Roman, a young man working in the back who spoke a little English and helped translate. “The next day they came back to get fresh bread, and there was a note waiting for them. It began with the words that sort of live in history with us now,” Ken recalls laughingly. “‘I am the boy from yesterday...’ Roman offered to be our translator and guide in Prague. Now he runs the whole operation, which has 500 employees and grosses as much as $50 million a year. He is brilliant.” Roman is only one of the many employees who have grown with the company across years and decades. “I’ve been fortunate that I’ve been surrounded by great people,” Ken avows. “My current comptroller, for instance, has been with us almost 30 years. It’s the only job he’s ever had, I trust him absolutely. And the General Manager, Laura, has been with us over 20 years. People don’t leave us. I like to think it’s because we’re a good place to work.” This staying power is generated through Ken’s leadership style, which revolves around the central theme of trust. He never micromanages, and instead allows his employees to figure out their own schedules. As long as the work is done, he has faith in their ability to manage their time. “I don’t often think of myself as a leader,” he says modestly. “I like to think that what I’m good at is finding good people, and then I leave them alone! I give them goals, and I may give them some guidelines in terms of budgets or what have you, but aside from that, I don’t check in with them every day.” He thinks of this style of management as being goal-oriented over process-oriented, and it’s served him well. When reflecting on where he may have learned to take such leaps of faith in business, Ken cites his grandfather’s influence. “While my father was more cautious, my grandfather was one of the great wheeler-dealers in real estate,” he affirms. “From him, I learned the value of risk taking.” His mother also influenced him deeply, teaching him to be self-reliant and responsible. “She didn’t go to college because there was no money for college in her family, but she was very, very bright,” he says. “She loved books and read a book a day.” He’s also continually inspired by his brilliant 29-year- old daughter and compassionate 26-year-old son, who is currently teaching children on the autism spectrum. As he admiringly reflects on his son’s work, he is quick to advise young people entering the business world today not to feel pressured into doing what’s safe or what’s most lucrative. He remembers meeting an old man during his unhappy year in Florida working in real estate, and relays the same advice he received then. “He told me something, probably when I was moaning and groaning about how miserable I was down there,” Ken recalls. “He said, ‘Do what you want to do. Do what you enjoy, and the money will follow.’ There are too many kids coming out of school today, especially business school, that focus on questions like, what’s the biggest offer I’m getting? Where am I going to make the most money? A lot of them don’t end up happy. It’s more important to focus on doing what you enjoy doing, where your interests are, where your heart is, and not worry about the money. The money will follow.” By following that advice, Copy General is today one of the leading all-digital printers in the area, and the largest in Loudoun County. “We have some of the most advanced technology, especially for a company our size,” Ken points out. “We have a full time software development team, and we’ve designed everything ourselves. We didn’t want to wait for other companies to decide to make an upgrade, or charge us outrageous amounts.” That philosophy of not waiting on someone else and instead taking up the reigns oneself has characterized Ken’s journey since he began printing ads himself at GW, and has stayed with him throughout Copy General’s expansion, evolution, and growth. He may not think of himself as a leader, but he certainly has never followed a prescribed path, committed instead to blazing his own trail.

Remembering Paul Panitz, Founder of Copy General in Europe

REMEMBERING PAUL PANITZ, FOUNDER OF COPY GENERAL IN EUROPE. (Paul passed away in 2008.) THE ARTICLE BELOW WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN January 1994. “East's Copy King Duplicates U.S. Success: A Forint-Pincher Thrives” By Henry Copeland, International Herald Tribune Jan. 3, 1994 Asked about his black Converse All Stars, Paul Panitz, a 46-year-old millionaire, volunteers that they cost $19 five years ago. Later, he recalls buying an office chair for $50 at a 1981 auction. And on a given afternoon, he may be found in a copy shop not far from the Danube River, reminding employees that a copy machine uses six times less toner when operated with its lid closed. "Sometimes Paul is too cheap, but if he weren't cheap we wouldn't be getting ready to open our fourth store in Budapest," says Erno Duda, Mr. Panitz's 25- year-old protégé and co-owner of Copy General Hungary. In a business where margins are paper thin, Paul Panitz's frugality has made him the king of copying of Eastern Europe. Since his first store opened in Budapest in June of 1991, Mr. Panitz has opened three more Copy General shops in Hungary, two shops in Prague and one in Warsaw. In the process, he has surpassed in size the six-store Washington D.C. chain from which he borrowed Copy General's name and initial expertise. Soon, new Copy General shops will open in Budapest, Prague and Plzen. Copy machines - once kept under lock and key to prevent them from spawning samizdat, or underground publishing - are humming in Eastern Europe. Demand has been so great that all but one of the Copy Generals here have broken even in operating results after four months, compared with an industry average of nine months in the United States, according to Mr. Panitz. Copy General's Budapest flagship now spins through eight kilometers (five miles) of paper every month, and one of the Prague shops recently completed an order of 2 million pages for a corporate training manual. But oddly, while Copy General has multitudes of small competitors - almost every stationery store here sports a desktop copier - its enterprises constitute the only chain of full-service copy shops in Eastern Europe. Copy General's uncontested position in its category is a measure not only of Mr. Panitz's business acumen, but his willingness to persevere through tribulations that have thwarted others. Steve Haas, 32, who helped launch Copy General in Poland and the Czech Republic, notes that in the United States "you can pick up a telephone, call an attorney and get incorporated in 24 hours, then have office space leased and furniture brought in another 24 hours." In contrast, says Mr. Haas, "these things we spent months trying to achieve here." Still unable to secure a telephone line for one Budapest store, Copy General will soon install CB radios. Mr. Panitz came to Budapest in September 1990, looking for something exciting to do with himself and some of the $1.7 million he had earned from selling Unicorn Graphics, a printing business he started in Washington D.C. in 1971. After an unsuccessful two-month search for a site for the copy shop he hoped to open, Mr. Panitz tried to negotiate a joint venture with a Hungarian copy firm. This too failed. In another attempt to locate premises for a business, he resorted to walking the streets and putting notes on the windows of vacant stores. Nearly seven months after his arrival, Mr. Panitz finally found a basement on the southern fringe of the business district. The location was not great and the landlord wanted five years rent, up front, but Mr. Panitz had little choice. In addition to the advance rent, Mr. Panitz had to pay cash for his first copy machines, bringing his total outlay for the first store to $380,000. Revenues were $121,000 for that store's first six months of operations. Now, monthly revenues for all operations have swelled to $340,000 as customers have lined up to take advantage of the company's long hours and attention to detail. Copy General shops have been so profitable that, with the exception of one $100,000 loan, each successive store has been financed by established stores.

RIP, Denise Minot

Denise Minot, a Tampa, FL resident and native of the Washington, DC area, passed away on Monday, November 29th. Our condolences to her son Michael, to Michael’s wife and to Michael’s son (who is less than one year old) and to Denise’s ex-husband, Henry Minot. I had the pleasure of working with Denise at several different companies over a period of many years. Denise was the consummate professional, she had a superior work ethic, and everyone who worked with her valued her as a teammate and as a friend. I first met Denise when she was dating Henry Minot. This was back in the 1970’s. Henry, who graduated from Montgomery Blair High School (Silver Spring, MD), joined our company, and introduced me to Denise. I attended their wedding. Denise herself later joined the team at our company (Rowley-Scher Reprographics.) Years later, she joined the team at another company I worked for (Transcolor, Inc., a subsidiary of Alleco, Inc.) And, later on, after Denise relocated to Florida, she joined our team at NGI. Denise also worked at Montgomery Blair High School and at Winter Park Blue (which is now part of Thomas Printworks.) Denise, RIP.

ARC DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS; A QUICK LOOK AT THEN AND NOW

ARC; “THEN AND NOW” Copied fom the 10K filed 02/27/08 for the Period Ending 12/31/07: “We operate 307 reprographics service centers, including 298 service centers in 204 cities in 39 states throughout the United States and the District of Columbia, eight reprographics service centers in Canada, and one in Mexico City, Mexico. Our reprographics service centers are located in close proximity to the majority of our customers and offer pickup and delivery services within a 15 to 30 mile radius. These service centers are arranged in a hub and satellite structure and are digitally connected as a cohesive network, allowing us to provide our services both locally and nationally. We service approximately 140,000 active customers and employ approximately 5,164 people, including a sales and customer service staff of approximately 987 employees.” Copied from the 10K filed 02/24/21 for the Period Ending 12/31/20: “Offsite Services - We operate 148 offsite service centers in major metropolitan markets in the U.S. and internationally which provide local customers with high-volume, project-related printing, offer our MPS customers overflow capacity during peak workloads, and support our customers’ scanning needs in archiving and information management services. Our products and services are available from any of our 148 service centers around the world, and nearly all of our services can be made available in our customers’ offices. Our geographic presence is concentrated in the U.S., with additional service centers in Canada, China, India, and the United Kingdom. Our corporate headquarters are located in San Ramon, California. As of December 31, 2020, the Company employed approximately 1,750 employees.” QUICK SUMMARY: NUMBER OF SERVICE CENTERS OPERATED At 12/31/2007 - 307 At 12/31/2020 - 148 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES At 12/31/2007 - 5,164 At 12/31/2020 - 1,750 NET SALES At 12/31/2007 - $688,354,000.00 At 12/31/2020 - $285,900,000.00

RIP Gary P Rowley

Gary Paul Rowley, former owner of Rowley-Scher Reprographics, Inc., passed away on November 17th, 2021. Gary was 87 years old. His wife, Marilyn, passed away in 2017. Sincere condolences to the Rowley family on Gary’s passing. Gary’s first reprographics company was Rowley’s Blueprint Service (RBS), which was located in Silver Hill, Md. RBS was established in 1959. After selling RBS, Gary worked in sales for Technifax Corp; Gary held that position for six years. Gary then started Expedite Blueprint Service (in downtown Washington, DC) as a division/subsidiary of Expedite Printing Service. After the terms of his business arrangement were not met by his partner in Expedite, Gary left and purchased The Sepia Shop, which was also located in downtown Washington, D.C. Gary immediately changed the name of The Sepia Shop to Rowley’s Blueprint Service. In 1979, Gary merged his company with Max Scher Blueprint (the latter company was owned by John Scher Zeller), and the name of the company was changed to Rowley-Scher Reprographics. While Gary was CEO of Rowley-Scher, the company completed other mergers and acquisitions, including Allied Reproduction Service, Heller Reproductions, and A&E Blueprinters. At the time Gary retired from Rowley-Scher (early 1984), Rowley-Scher, then operating multiple locations in the Greater Washington/Baltimore Common Market Area, was the largest reprographics enterprise in the Wash/Balt Common Market Area and one of the largest reprographics enterprises in the United States. Gary was very active in MiniMAX, an association of reprographers specializing in overlay “pin-graphics”. MiniMAX was founded by Jack Cushing of Cushing & Co. in Chicago. (Years later, MiniMAX was merged into ReproCAD to form ReproMAX; the latter is now known as RMAX Network.) Gary was friends with reprographers all across the United States. Gary was a guiding light to all who worked with him, and a genius when it came to Sales & Marketing and Market Strategy. Personal note: I had the pleasure of being one of Gary’s partners in Rowley-Scher. Our other partners were John Scher Zeller and Rich Heller. All of my partners had a major impact on my development, and I am truly blessed to have been associated with them. The last time I saw Gary was in 2013, when we got together for lunch in Bradenton, FL. Gary had a wonderful sense of humor; I remember him saying, with a twinkle in his eye, “I’d order a bowl of soup, but most of it would end up on the tablecloth; Parkinson’s Disease is not fun.”….. Joel Salus, Publisher of Reprographics 101. Photo of Gary P Rowley and John Scher Zeller; taken in 1979 at the time that Rowley's Bluepring and Max Scher Blueprint merged to form Rowley-scher Reprographics, Inc.

Reprographers are highly encouraged to participate in the APDSP Financial Benchmarking Survey!!!!

Hi Joel - How are you? You've probably read about the APDSP Financial Benchmarking Survey we're undertaking. I have high hopes for it, but its success is entirely dependent on getting enough participation from reprographics shop owners. With that in mind, will you tell Repro 101 readers about it? You can read details about it and get a link to survey here: https://www.apdsp.org/apdsp-financial-benchmarking-survey-distributed/ Thank you! Ed Avis Managing Director Association of Printing and Digital Solutions Professionals

Stock and Roll - Storage system for storing wide-format roll stock

Stock & Roll arrives to the US with the ambition to win the American market thanks to its innovative products and with the objective to show all the advantages of its different and innovative supports. https://www.printingnews.com/wide-format-signage/press-release/21152652/stock-and-roll-the-innovation-that-is-shaking-up-large-format-printers

ARC Document Solutions - Q1 2021 Sales were off about the same as Q4 2020 Sales were off

	SALES
						2020 to 2019	2020 to 2019	Q1 2021 to Q1 2020	Q1 2021 to Q1 2020
	Period	2018	2019	2020	2021	$ change	% change	$ change	% change
	Q1	$      97.71	$     97.10	$   88.40	$   61.70	$   (8.70)	-8.96%	$ (26.70)	-30.20%
	Q2	$   104.19	$     98.90	$   64.30		$(34.60)	-34.98%
	1st H	$   201.90	$  196.00	$ 152.70		$(43.30)	-22.09%
	Q3	$   100.47	$     94.10	$   72.40		$(21.70)	-23.06%
	9 Mo	$   302.37	$  290.10	$ 225.10		$(65.00)	-28.88%
	Q4	$      98.40	$     92.30	$   64.30		$(28.00)	-30.34%
	Year	$   400.77	$  382.40	$ 289.40		$(93.00)	-24.32%

Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated

BY SOPHIE LEWIS

MARCH 22, 2021 / 9:56 AM / CBS NEWS

In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long. 

Starting Monday, any customer with a valid COVID-19 vaccination card will receive a free Original Glazed doughnut at participating locations nationwide. The iconic doughnut shop specifies that any guests who have received at least one of the two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine qualify for the promotion. 

All you need to show is your vaccination card to redeem your doughnut — a vaccine sticker is not valid. 

Canon U.S.A. Offers High-Quality Speed and Performance Inkjet Printing with the Launch of the imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 Series

New expanded line of large format printers include imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 Series and the next generation of imagePROGRAF TX printers

Further showcasing its commitment to innovation and pushing the boundaries of print, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is excited to announce the latest additions to its imagePROGRAF line of large format printers with new hybrid solutions, the imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 and imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 multifunction printer (MFP) Z36. Offering high-speed printing, security features and advanced media handling, these new solutions are designed to benefit a variety of Production CAD markets including architecture, engineering, government, manufacturing – just to name a few – at a low acquisition cost. In addition to the new imagePROGRAF TZ Series, the company is also announcing the upgraded line of imagePROGRAF TX Series printers.

Built with productivity in mind, the imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 series delivers high-speed printing, as seen through its ability to produce a D-sized print in as fast as 14 seconds, and up to 236 D-sized prints per hour.1 The integrated Top Output Stacker can stack up to 100 A0-size sheets face-down, providing an added measure of confidentiality. The product’s advanced air flow system can also help reduce paper jams while keeping prints neatly in place, and its integrated, compact design can help save office space, allowing printed materials to be easily retrieved from the front of the printer.

As seen through Canon’s innovative intelligent media handling in its dual roll paper system, this product is designed with productivity and usability in mind. After the user loads the paper, the advanced sensor technology can detect the width, length and media type while also feeding the media, allowing the user to also perform other necessary tasks while the printer completes the feeding process. The product’s Roll Paper Indicator displays four different media levels with LED lights to notify users if paper is running low. As an added convenience, users can load a second roll while the first roll is still printing through its Hot Swap feature – a Canon first. The imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 is also available as a powerful Scan-to-Copy/File system that allows the user to scan and print at the same time. Providing further efficiency and productivity, the imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 MFP version also includes the new Z36 scanner, developed by Global Scanning for Canon, as well as an updated system controller with a new intuitive interface.

Capitalizing on the breadth of its product offering, Canon has also made available a wide variety of workflow and creative software programs. Designed for high-volume uses, users can take advantage of the compatibility of the imagePROGRAF TZ and imagePROGRAF TX printers with Canon’s Production Printing (CPP) Driver Select and CPP Publisher Select software, a desktop job submission software solution that boosts workflow and productivity to help users manage and submit complex sets of documents, to one or two printers at a time. Additionally, Canon introduces Direct Print Plus (DPP) job submission software which, through a combination of DPP’s processing speeds, as well as an updated user interface layout and settings menu, can help improve the rendering process for users.

“Our extensive market research pointed to an increasing demand for high speed, yet versatile, large format printers for users who are looking to expand business opportunities within the low-end LED / high end inkjet market, and the Canon imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 Series has been created specifically to meet that industry need,” said Shinichi Yoshida, executive vice president and general manager, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “As an industry-leading innovator, Canon is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of print by developing new cutting-edge solutions designed to help our customers stay productive and efficient.”

The next generation of imagePROGRAF TX Series2 devices incorporates many of the advanced technology created for the imagePROGRAF TZ Series, including increased print speeds, intelligent media handling and enhanced security features. The MFP models are also equipped with the newly developed Z36 scanner, which is designed to help save space and reduce weight while delivering advanced image quality at fast speeds. The imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 MFP Z36 also has a more integrated feel and an improved All-in-One (AIO) computer.

Availability:

Delivering on its commitment to productivity, the imagePROGRAF TZ-30000 and TZ-30000 MFP Z36 ship standard as a two roll system. Orders can be processed through Canon’s authorized dealers starting on Thursday April 15, 2021. Products are expected to be available for shipment in mid-May 2021.

The TX Series of large format printers will be available to order in April, shipping information will be announced shortly. The TX Series can be ordered with either a stacking basket or regular catch basket.

For more information, please visit www.usa.canon.com.