Harwood King Fine Art Studio has refreshed its production machinery with two newly-acquired Canon printers, an iPF 8400 and an iPF 815, to bolster the company's fine art print and film production.

The company, which specialises in making giclée and silkscreen artwork, expects to improve print quality and productivity utilising the twelve-colour ink channels and internal memory capacity on the 8400, while, the 815, with five colour stations will run their film jobs. The machines were purchased from reseller M Partners Wide.

"Canon was a revelation to us," comments Quentin Harwood King, owner and managing director of Harwood King. "The twelve-colour system is a huge boost for us – especially in the red area of the spectrum. Colour, for fine art work, is so critical. The colour gamut and the stability of the system were both immediate advantages.

"Overall we are replacing old with new – but new with some great additional benefits for our business: the overall quality is better, its faster, and the colour accuracy is so good and reliable. The colour accuracy provides us with the biggest saving: we no longer spend hours fiddling with profiles to tweak them to get a colour just right. We simply don't need to."