Auckland, NEW ZEALAND – 17 February 2025: Canon New Zealand today announces the imageFORCE C7165, a multifunction printer powered by Canon’s newly developed imageFORCE technology platform. The printer is designed to meet the ever-evolving expectations of organisations in today’s modern workspace, harnessing innovations such as machine learning algorithms to support new levels of security, reliability and quality for businesses.
Yoshinori Moritaki, Director, Sales & Support Group at Canon Oceania comments, “In a fast-evolving business landscape, organisations must adopt the latest technologies to enhance performance, drive growth, and improve employee experiences. With advancements like AI and cloud computing reshaping workflows, businesses are seeking smarter, more efficient solutions.
To meet these evolving needs, we have introduced imageFORCE, a cutting-edge technology platform designed to empower organisations with innovative tools that boost productivity and future-proof their operations.”
The new easy-to-use imageFORCE C7165 multifunction printer is specifically designed to help organisations boost productivity and achieve production print like quality in the office. It delivers high-definition imagery, helping to expand creativity and the types of applications that can be printed in-house. For example, high quality flyers and posters can be produced with the same ease as office documents, making it ideal for short print runs, while reducing the cost of using an outsourced print supplier. Benefits include:
Incorporating market leading D2 Exposure technology, the new imageFORCE C7165 uses organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) as the light source to greatly enhance the quality of printed materials – this allows the device to deliver better coloured prints, improved smoothness and enhanced text quality.
With true 4800dpi resolution imagery, the imageFORCE C7165 delivers a print quality ideal for producing high-quality printed materials in-house, including flyers, posters, pamphlets and longer length banners. It also helps to simplify the process of printing sales materials, such as business cards, postcards and personalised direct mail.
To capitalise on the benefits AI can bring to businesses, the imageFORCE C7165 lets customers use security-enhancing algorithms that are updated regularly by Canon using machine learning. Through Canon’s Security Environment Estimation Technology, optimal security settings are recommended on the operation panel, so that even customers without in-house experience can achieve a robust level of device security. This algorithm also detects changes to the network in real time, notifying the user accordingly and minimising security vulnerabilities due to missed settings.
The new imageFORCE C7165 also uses machine learning algorithms in conjunction with Canon’s global expertise and experience to support advanced maintenance, boost reliability and help support work continuity. By connecting to Canon’s Universal Gateway 2 (UGW2) system, it is able to estimate the life of parts and help warn of any potential failures in advance - empowering businesses to minimise downtime and potential business disruption.
The imageFORCE C7165 helps organisations save time by enhancing printing and paper feeding performance allowing businesses to work faster – quickly creating high quality materials in the office. Through air-assisted paper feeding, a fan, which adjusts to changes in the environment, is mounted on the manual tray to help prevent paper adhesion - this helps to improve the productivity of printing on coated paper, allowing up to 50 sheets of 128gsm paper to be loaded at once. It also supports larger paper sizes and water-resistant paper which helps support the in-office production of applications such as posters and banners.
The new imageFORCE C7165 has been built using 30 percent recycled plastics and features innovative technology to track environmental performance and help organisations monitor their impact. For example, information such as paper usage and energy consumption are available directly from the device control panel ‘operating status’ to encourage more sustainable user behaviour.
The new imageFORCE C7165 is scheduled to be commercially available in New Zealand and accredited partners from March 2025.