CANON U.S.A. WINS ON DEMAND BEST OF SHOW AWARD AND ALSO GRABS HONORABLE MENTION

Canon imagePRESS Line Takes Top Honors In Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment And Is Recognized For Color Digital Printing Equipment at World's Leading Digital Printing Conference and Exposition

Philadelphia, March 31, 2009 - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and office solutions, has been recognized at this year's ON DEMAND event with a Best of Show award in the Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment category for its imagePRESS 1135/1125/1110 Black and White Digital Press. The Company also received honorable mention in the Color Digital Printing Equipment category for the imagePRESS C1+. Both devices, first announced at Graph Expo 2008, augment Canon's already robust, award-winning line of imagePRESS products.

"Canon is thrilled and honored to receive a Best of Show award and honorable mention at this year's ON DEMAND Exposition for our imagePRESS product line" said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Marketing & Field Sales Division, Canon U.S.A. "These awards are a testament to Canon's commitment of providing innovative, versatile, industry leading monochrome and color printing solutions that can help a business run at its greatest capacity."

The award-winning imagePRESS 1135/1125/1110 combines Canon's wealth of knowledge in monochrome printing with the successful core architecture and reliability of the imagePRESS line to offer a highly customizable and extremely versatile black-and-white digital press. Through utilizing Canon's unique Twin Sleeve Technology, the imagePRESS 1135/1125/1110 produces monochrome prints at a quality level never before seen in an electrophotographic device.

Also garnering an honorable mention was the Canon imagePRESS C1+ in the Color Digital Printing Equipment category. Developed for the graphic and creative markets, the Canon imagePRESS C1+ is the first device of its size and speed to offer a clear toner station, which greatly expands the design elements and features that can be included in prints.

InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with the ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition to produce the awards program. The ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition is the world's leading digital printing conference and exposition, encompassing all of the technologies that are used to create, manage, personalize, print and deliver content.

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About Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), a top patent holder of technology, ranked third overall in the U.S. in 2007†, with global revenues of $39.3 billion, is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is on the 2008 Business Week list of "Top 100 Brands."

† Based on weekly patent counts issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office

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