Three document scanners from Canon - the imageFORMULA DR-2510C, imageFORMULA DR-X10C and ScanFront 220P - named best in class at Spring 2008 "Pick" awards

Canon scanners win three out of four awards in scanner division

Dubai, August 11, 2008 - Canon Europe, world leader in imaging solutions, has been awarded three prestigious Spring 2008 "Pick" awards by Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), the world's leading independent tester of document imaging products. Scoring particularly highly in reliability, the Canon imageFORMULA DR-2510C workgroup scanner, imageFORMULA DR-X10C mid-volume production scanner and Canon's leading network scanner, the ScanFront 220P, were named Spring "Picks" by Buyers Laboratory in their respective categories.

BLI regularly acknowledges the very best performers with its twice yearly "Pick" awards, which are given to products that perform best in BLI's proprietary tests. Devices are evaluated on a wide range of the most important performance factors for buyers, including reliability, ease of use, productivity and value.

"From the workgroup to production environments, Canon's document scanners stand at the forefront of scanning innovation, delivering high-end features to satisfy real business needs," said Sean Suematsu, European New Business Solutions Marketing Director, DIMS, Canon Europe.  "Winning three out of four categories in the Buyers Lab awards' scanner division is a terrific endorsement of the results of Canon's history of innovation in digital imaging and scanning."

Delivering cross-category excellence

Canon's DR-2510C earned BLI's "Pick" award for Outstanding Workgroup Scanner because of its excellent overall feature set and media-handling capabilities, as well as its very good overall ease of use and excellent value. "This unit also demonstrated nearly flawless OCR accuracy, even when scanning BLI's challenging very light document," noted BLI Research Editor Lisa Reider.

BLI found the ScanFront 220P enabled networked users to easily and securely scan using fingerprint authentication, naming it as its Outstanding Network Scanner. "With one-touch scan presets that can be conveniently located on the main screen of the unit's colour touch-screen display, the ScanFront 220P sets a new benchmark for ease of use in this category," said BLI Test Technician Joe Ellerman.

Canon's first ever Mid-Volume Production Scanner, the DR X10C, was named Outstanding Mid-Volume Production Scanner thanks to its fast scanning speeds of up to 100 pages and 200 images per minute, excellent image processing features and outstanding ease of use.

Complete test reports are available from Buyers Laboratory on request.

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About Buyers Laboratory
For 47 years, Buyers Lab has been the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI's US and UK laboratories, the company has been the leading source for extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products. The company's databases cover 10,000 products and have a long-standing reputation for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete source for global competitive intelligence. They are available to BLI subscribers online via the company's bliQ competitive information service. This encyclopedic resource also provides quick and easy access to BLI's First Look Reports, Field Test Reports, Lab Test Reports, Solutions Reports, and BLIproduced articles.

In addition to the testing of office equipment for its subscribers, Buyers Lab provides consulting services to buyers and a vast array of confidential for-hire private testing services that include document imaging device beta and pre-launch testing, performance certification testing, consumables testing (such as toner, ink and photoconductors), software and solutions and print media testing (including virgin and recycled papers).

For more information on Buyers Lab, please call +44 (0) 1189 772000, visit www.buyerslab.com, or e-mail dean.armstrong@buyerslab.com.

About Canon Middle East
Canon is a world-leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions for individuals and businesses. Canon provides both individual products and complete networked technology solutions for information input, management and output. Its product range is divided between Business Solutions (developing IT products, solutions and services for both the office and professional print environments) and Consumer Imaging (photography, video and digital camera, Bubble Jet printers).  Canon Middle East is the operational headquarters for Canon in this region, and is based in Dubai, UAE. Further information about Canon Middle East is available at: www.canon-me.com

Canon Contact:   
Ahmed El Sherbini
Marketing Department
Canon Middle East FZ-LLC
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Direct: + 971 4 3692450
Fax: + 971 4 3916715
e-mail: ahmed.sherbini@canon-me.com

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