Canon named a Leader in Latest IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Inkjet 2025 Vendor Assessment

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Venlo, 9th April, 2026 – Canon announces that it has been named a Leader in the  IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Inkjet 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52990625, December 2025). According to the IDC MarketScape assessment,  “Canon maintains a strong presence in the market, with continued growth in new installations and page volume. Canon is able to prove its value and success with many proven installations. Real-world production and utilization data prove uptime claims.”

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Inkjet 2025 Vendor Assessment evaluates vendors on their capabilities in inkjet, including innovation, product portfolios, service and support, customer experience and long-term vision.  The IDC MarketScape recognises Canon’s high-speed inkjet (HSIJ) portfolio, reporting that “since the last iteration of this study, in which Canon was already in the Leaders category, Canon has made significant strides to bolster its position in the segment.”

 

Among the improvements cited in the IDC MarketScape are:

  • Canon’s extension of the capabilities of  several of its established high-speed inkjet products.
  • Canon’s announcement of its own 1,200dpi piezo inkjet printhead platform and products1 based on it.
  • Canon’s announcement of innovation in  service execution and delivery to create more control for end users and, ultimately, higher uptime.
  • Canon’s work with multiple industry partners to expand finishing solutions .

The IDC MarketScape report also noted: “Canon’s presses use its own printhead technology and innovative ink systems (such as water-based polymer inks, 1,200dpi printheads2 and proprietary waveforms), combining offset-level quality, color consistency, and substrate versatility. Features include inline sensors for color profiling and automated maintenance.”

“Canon has well-developed supply chains that have already scaled up. It has an extensive global service network with fast response times and reliable parts availability worldwide. Canon is innovating in the area of service, designing programs that enable print service providers to train them to perform different levels of service on their Canon HSIJ equipment to reduce downtime.”

The report noted, “Canon is also in a strong position through the development of its digital front-end solutions (PRISMA) that optimize workflows, file processing, and the operator interface for its high-speed presses.”

Peter Wolff, Senior Vice President, Canon Production Printing, commented: “We believe the recognition in the 2025 IDC MarketScape reflects the depth of our heritage in high-speed inkjet technologies in real production environments. To us, what differentiates Canon is not only the performance of our presses, but the reliability and stability we offer as we build long-term partnerships with customers. Our unique approach combines proven technology, deep application expertise and a global service organisation that delivers consistently high uptime and support. This approach enables print service providers to scale with confidence, today and in the future.”

An excerpt of the IDC MarketScape relating to Canon can be viewed and downloaded here.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Canon’s high-speed inkjet portfolio

Canon’s broad portfolio of high-speed inkjet presses spans continuous feed and sheetfed technologies, enabling a wide spectrum of production print customers to transition from analogue to digital production, responding to sustained buyer demand for shorter print runs, faster turnaround and highly efficient printing.

Depending on their production volumes, application mix and established workflow, customers can choose from the B3-format varioPRINT iX1700 and varioPRINT iX3200 or B2-format varioPRESS iV7 sheetfed presses, or the ProStream 2000 and 3000 and ColorStream 8000 continuous feed solutions. This comprehensive range of presses is supported by solutions and services – both proprietary and through selected partners – that support the evolving needs of print service providers across commercial printing, direct mail, books and publishing, transaction and niche applications.

Canon presses encompass both inkjet and toner technologies, meaning that commercial printers can rely on a comprehensive portfolio that addresses all application needs as well as production capacity expectations.

Canon has begun to implement its strategy to become a significant, trusted partner to the label and packaging markets with the announcements of the LabelStream LS2000 and corrPRESS iB17.

Find more information about Canon inkjet presses at: https://cpp.canon/product-technologies/

[1] Canon varioPRESS iV7 and corrPRESS iB17

[2] This refers to the forthcoming varioPRESS iV7 and corrPRESS iB17.