News Article

Langenhagen, Germany, January 2009

A world premiere at drupa, the international print media trade fair in Düsseldorf, is now available. Konica Minolta is launching its new bizhub PRO C65hc working with a revolutionary High Chroma toner for unmatched excellence in colour production printing. An unprecedented number of colours and exceptionally bright colour saturation are just two of the features the new printing system offers its users. Graphic arts companies, commercial printers as well as advertising agencies and creatives will particularly appreciate the large sRGB coverage area along with the facilitated sRGB colour workflow. On the whole, the bizhub PRO C65hc puts additional value to their on-demand printing, allowing its users to distinguish themselves from their competitors.

 

"The bizhub PRO C65hc and its High Chroma toner constitute a quantum leap in colour production printing," says Karl-Friedrich Edenhuizen, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. "It produces a veritable fireworks display of colours unmatched by any other production printing system currently on the market. More good news is the affordable investment costs of this compact colour printing 'wizard'."

So what is the secret behind the outstanding colour output that graphic arts companies, designers and creatives can produce with the new High Chroma toner? Developed on the basis of Konica Minolta’s Simitri HD toner technology, it is produced in a special polymerisation process. With its miniscule and very uniformly shaped particles, the High Chroma toner produces an image quality previously unknown. It can reproduce a colour gamut extremely close to the sRGB colour space. For users, this makes reproducing colours as they see them on the monitor very easy and straightforward. “What you see is what you print” is the maxim for the new High Chroma toner, and complicated conversion processes from sRGB into CMYK are a thing of the past.

With its innovation, Konica Minolta is at the pulse of time. With communication channels covering print, online and mobile communication, professionals have been changing their colour management from traditional CMYK to sRGB. The High Chroma toner’s eco-friendliness is also much more than a nice by-product. It requires lower fusing temperatures than conventional toners while also producing lower CO2 emissions.

The bizhub PRO C65hc pairs its unprecedented colour printing potential with impressive media flexibility and comprehensive inline finishing options. The system processing up to 65 colour A4 pages a minute easily deals with media of up to 300 gsm. To facilitate selection, the bizhub PRO C65hc comes in different configurations, suited to the most frequent customer finishing requirements. The configuration for direct mailings, marketing collaterals and brochures for instance comes equipped with finishing options such as punching and folding – also for post-inserted material – and stapling. Saddle stitching and booklet making round off the list.

"Our bizhub C65hc is suitable for producing material for cross media advertising and variable data printing," says Karl-Friedrich Edenhuizen. "It is also ideal for creating direct mail, brochures or POS materials in vivid colours. Overall, we recommend this printing system to customers who seek to differentiate themselves from their competitors with exceptionally true colours. We are particularly thinking of advertising agencies and professional print providers who target a creative, demanding audience."

 

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Product images are available at www.konicaminolta-images.com

 

Contact:

 

Karl-Friedrich Edenhuizen

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH

Phone: +49 (0)511 7404-377

Karl.Edenhuizen(at)konicaminolta.eu

 

Claudia Bitzer

Pleon GmbH

Phone: +49 (0)711 210 99-416

KonicaMinoltaTeam(at)pleon.com