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eSignature

Canon’s eSignature solution can be accessed from anywhere, improving customer experience & back-office productivity while maintaining compliance and security throughout the entire signing process.

A better way to sign documents in a hybrid environment

Our eSignature solution simplifies electronic document signing, no matter where you’re working.

Many organisations now work in a hybrid way, yet visiting the office to sign documents is time consuming and causes delays. By using eSignature, you can quickly sign and send documents from anywhere in the world.

Help your business move faster with Canon eSignature

Choosing between collaboration and security? Have both. Sign documents in different ways according to your needs, from a simple click-to-sign to an advanced digital signature that securely seals the document and ensures its integrity.

Enhance Customer Experience

eSignature makes it fast and simple for your customers to access and sign documents wherever they are. Customers can sign documents using any device, from a home laptop to a smartphone or even a tablet in a retail store.

Boost Collaboration and Mobility

Access eSignature from anywhere in the world via the web-based solution.

Drive Productivity

Eliminate physical printing and postage for important documents. Through integration, you can fully automate the pre- and post-signing processes too.

Strengthen Security and Compliance

Keep your IT defences tight through a secure eSignature solution that enables visibility of the entire signing process while helping to manage regulatory requirements.

Three ways to share corporate devices – and which one to pick

Many organisations today – especially those operating in the public sphere such as libraries or co-working spaces – need to provide services such as printing and scanning to the wider community. That means placing a device in an area where the public can use it. But how can organisations do this without exposing their networks to risk?

In this article, we’ll explore three approaches to sharing corporate devices, and assess any security concerns.


Method 1: USB connection and email

The most common way to share print and scan services is providing a non-networked device with a USB slot. It’s very easy – but USB sticks can transfer viruses, including those designed specifically for multifunction devices. That allows hackers to create and exploit corrupted configurations and take over the device, putting sensitive data at risk.

This also means that you need to put aside budget to provide this device, adding to costs. By disabling the USB ports, you can protect your systems, but you then need to connect the device to your corporate network. Whenever the public need to print, they will submit files to your staff, via USB or email – so the risk remains. Additionally, your staff end up spending time dealing with these requests.

Method 2: Third-party hardware

You could add a third-party device to your network. The device – perhaps a tablet – can control your public printing and act as a middleman between the public and your network. The issue, though, is the tablet needs to be maintained, while it and any server components are not your corporate assets, so they might miss out on crucial security updates. The tablet itself is at risk of damage as well.

For your IT team, it could create more challenges by adding another operating system such as Linux or iOS to your organisation. And if the tablet is used by your staff as well as the public, it leaves them open to compliance breaches if they read documents submitted by the public – or worse, for members of the public to read confidential internal documents.

Method 3: Canon Print Share Solution

Should you opt for convenience or security? With the Canon Print Share Solution, you don’t need to choose. Used alongside our six-time award-winning uniFLOW Online print management system, the Canon Print Share Solution is hosted in the cloud.

There’s no on-premise terminals, release stations or servers needed, and the Print in City app is certified and rigorously tested by our experts. Everything is kept apart as well. There are no shared processing spaces or device credentials, while internal and external prints are separated and encrypted.

When an internal user presents at a Print in City device, the device identifies them – for example, using their building access card via uniFLOW Online – and releases only their prints.

If an external guest user wants to use the device, they can scan the QR code identifier, and the system will recognise them as a specific Print in City user and release their prints.

It’s simple and secure for everyone – and best of all, the Print in City solution is self-contained. Your staff get the time back to carry out their normal work.

Print Share Solution

Welcome to the new world economy – the sharing economy. Set to be worth up to $827 billion by 2032, it covers everything from e-scooters and cars to homes and crowdfunding. And now, we are doing the same for printing, scanning, and copying.

Why choose Canon’s Print Share Solution?

Providing a dedicated multifunction device just for public use is not efficient for businesses. And searching for print providers is not efficient for users, while printing on home devices often sacrifices quality.

The solution? Print on the nearest available Canon business printer, offering professional quality for users and a new revenue stream for device owners.

Watch: Canon Print Share Solution in practice

See how our Print Share Solution could work for you, as a print provider or as a user. Use it as much or as little as you need, with no commitments and true self-service. It’s print for the sharing economy.


The way we print is changing with the way we work

95% of under-30s do not own a printer. At the same time, 28% of people use their home printer for work, and 1 in 5 people are now printing more than before the pandemic.

The problem is ensuring consistent access to high-quality, professional-grade printing when workers are mobile. That’s where our Print Share Solution comes in.

It’s a print, scan, and copy service for the general public, provided by institutions such as libraries, universities, hotels, and shared service centres. Exclusive to Canon devices, it can help institutions generate extra revenue streams and fulfil their civic responsibilities at a lower cost.

Canon Print Share Solution gives organisations a way to offer a simple, low-touch, securely accessed at any PIC location, print and scan proposition to external users. Users get business-quality output, when and where they need it, without the need for quotes, proofs, or cash.

Application 1: Councils, libraries, and government offices

Support your citizens by providing an easy-to-use, cost-effective print solution.

Many users need to print out forms or CVs, or simply need access to a reliable printer. Placing the service on your selected devices allows you to fulfil civic needs while also making your other services easier to access. Having the flexibility to take cash or e-wallets means organisations can be fully inclusive and help people from all generations – from people making 10p copies of a letter from their grandchildren, or digital-native teenagers printing their science thesis.

Libraries provide many essential services to their communities. With the Print Share Solution, they can now generate revenue to support or improve these other services.

Application 2: Universities and higher education

Universities need to provide easy printing throughout their campuses, and manage this across multiple sites. But registering students is a time-consuming process, while managing costs is crucial.

Whether a student is full time, part time, remote, or takes evening classes, you can allow them to self-register and pay for print as they need it, at rates that you set. That revenue is returned directly to your business. Give monthly allowances – or discount at thesis submission times – to support your students.

Print in City: reliable, high-quality, secure, simple – and available to use whenever your doors are open.

Application 3: Small businesses and shared working spaces

Providers of shared working spaces offer their clients space, phones and IT. But what about business-quality printing, copying and scanning? It’s often hard to set people up on the network to use a printer and charge them for it, so the costs and IT overhead can outweigh the benefits to the shared space owner.

By using Canon’s Print Share Solution, users can register themselves, and then use devices in the working space without IT resource.

Space owners can set the price themselves and get the revenue from each use, while differentiating themselves from the competition with quality print, copy and scan services. And by becoming a public point, they attract further footfall and income.

PRINT IN CITY

Read more about the benefits of Canon’s Print Share Solution with Print in City

Print in City

Whether you’re looking to share your devices or access print and scan services in your area, visit this page to learn how Print in City works – and see the answers to the most frequently asked questions.

Customer Communications

Deliver exceptional customer experiences, differentiate from the competition and empower business users to create personalised customer communications for all channels.

Document Composition and Delivery

Digital transformation of invoices, statements and personalised communications that are easily understandable and delivered through multichannel communications output, speeding up time to market through robust business process automation.

Customer Communications and Document Production Automation Solutions

Transform the way you produce and manage customer communications and data driven business-critical documentation, in multiple output channels.

PRECISION AND DETAIL BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION:

Canon imagePROGRAF TC-20

With the new imagePROGRAF TC-20 you have a compact desktop device that helps you produce professional-standard large format prints, without the price tag.

The imagePROGRAF TC-20 helps you create attractive, high-quality prints simple and fast. It’s easy to operate too, with ink refills, paper loading and maintenance all straightforward and accessible from the front.

Take the hassle out of large format printing with a user-friendly device. Full access from the front means no awkward and time-consuming maintenance, easy ink refills and a discreet profile, wherever you’re working. The imagePROGRAF TC-20 also allows you to keep your prints moving: a shaftless roll holder makes setting up roll paper straightforward in the smallest spaces, while the built-in auto-sheet feeder minimizes intervention when switching between roll paper and cut sheet.

The TC-20 is made with your sustainability goals in mind, using easily recyclable large 70ml plastic ink bottles to reduce refill frequency and total cost of ownership. It also uses less energy than similar models on the market. So, whether you’re in an office, working from home, at a retail shop front, work site, or school, don’t let budget or space constraints hold back your creativity.

To find out more about the Canon imagePROGRAF TC-series, click here.

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