Since then, our researchers have applied a series of breakthrough technologies to meet the growing office demand for color documents. Also, using newly developed controllers, we have made it possible to link digital copying machines to computer networks for high-speed office printing at standard to large paper sizes. Design offices around the world trust Canon to fulfill their color copying and color printing needs. In the conventional analog electro-photographic process, light shone on a document creates a reflected image that passes through a lens onto a photosensitive drum as an electrostatic charge.
Toner adheres to the electrostatic image, is transferred to paper and fixed.
By achieving this process digitally, Canon opened a new chapter in copying. Digital copying machines offer highly advanced image processing capabilities because documents are read electronically and laser beams produce images on the drum. For example, in addition to copies of fine detail, a wide variety of image processing options are realized. Canon has further improved office productivity by integrating its digital copying technology to create multifunctional machines that can also be used as printers, scanners or facsimile machines. The NP series has emerged as the de facto standard in analog monochrome copying machines because of its efficiency and suitability for office use.