(Read the original press release here.) 

Six years ago, Canon launched its Colorado line of wide-format printers. Based on Canon’s revolutionary new UVgel ink technology, the Colorado addressed the issue of the increased need for speed in a unique way: by “untethering” printing and ink curing. In other words, the printer has two carriages mounted a few inches apart, swishing back and forth in opposite directions to each other. One lays down the ink, while other runs the LED curing lamp over it. The key to the whole process is the UVgel ink, which is indeed a gel. As droplets of gel—think of a substance having the viscosity of hair gel—they don’t spread out or get absorbed if they are not cured immediately. (Chemically, gels exhibit no flow; although mostly liquid, they behave as solids thanks to surface tension.) So gel inks will just sit on the media as little microscopic blobs of jelly until they’re cured.

On March 16, Canon hosted an event at its Itasca, Ill., facility and Customer Experience Center to introduce the next-generation Colorado which is being announced today, March 30: the M-series. The “M” stands for modular, and among its many other features is that it now supports white ink.