Launch of the bizhub PRESS C8000 Trumpets in a New Era for Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia (Konica Minolta) unveiled the highly anticipated bizhub PRESS C8000 last night (Wednesday, 11 August) at an industry launch event in Finger Wharf, Sydney, signifying the company’s emergence in the mid production digital print market.
The event was hosted by comedian, Vince Sorrentti and the launch of the new printer was heralded in to the sound of James Morrison and his band, as Konica Minolta clients and dealers witnessed the bizhub PRESS C8000 in action for the first time.
David Procter, National Group Manager Production Printing says: “In the next 12 months we are looking to gain a fifty per cent market share in the mid range production market with the bizhub PRESS C8000. It’s an ambitious target, but based on the demand that we’ve seen already certainly achievable. We’ve had several signed orders pre-release and are expecting the first few months to be particularly strong.
Konica Minolta releases updated PageScope Enterprise Suite for streamlined print fleet administration and management
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), is releasing an updated version of its successful PageScope Enterprise Suite (PSES) software for effective print fleet administration and management. Highlights of the release are the new follow me printing module, called My Print Manager, increased security, reduced administration and greater support for card reader technologies. PSES now consists of five individual components to handle setup, control and management of users, input and output devices, and related network configurations. Its modular structure makes it an attractive solution that can be tailored to meet requirements for a wide range of users.
"Security, cost recovery, print volume analysis and output management are keywords in today’s office printing world," says Michael Anastassiou, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Australia. "They are the driving factors for the solution, which every business needs to secure and manage device access, provide an undeniable level of redundancy and a great way to reduce and recover costs at the same time. Our PageScope Enterprise Suite addresses all these needs in a professional and cost efficient manner. Since launching our original version of PageScope Enterprise Suite, we have listened closely to our customers and invested a great deal of time and effort in developing and further improving this successful software."
The Net Care Device Manager is the nucleus of PageScope Enterprise Suite around which all modules can be arranged. This element is free of charge and monitors all output devices, their status, availability and performance. It ensures constant high productivity of all systems while significantly reducing administrative input. It may be used either as a stand-alone application or in conjunction with any one or up to all four modules of the PageScope Enterprise Suite.
Monochrome Professionals for Corporate Workflows – the Konica Minolta bizhub 423 Series
Konica Minolta especially developed its new A3 multifunctional products for modern offices in which colour output is not always required, but colour input is essential. Therefore, the bizhub models 223, 283, 363 and 423 offer comprehensive monochrome copying, printing and faxing together with versatile colour scanning functions. Combined with Konica Minolta’s software applications the new office systems are the ideal tools for efficient document capture and distribution workflows. This helps to save time and reduce costs for workgroups and departments in virtually any corporate environment, for example in accounting, controlling and personnel.
“The new bizhub 423 family raises the bar for monochrome office equipment. Delivering award winning features of our office colour range, including high speed colour scanning, advanced security and seamless network integration. These products bridge the gap between monochrome and colour workflows,” said Reese Malcolm, Product Manager at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia.
As true A3 MFPs the bizhub 423 series – comprising the models bizhub 223, 283, 363 and 423 – delivers full office communication with monochrome printing, copying and faxing as well as colour scanning. Output speeds range from 22 to 42 pages per minute, enhancing existing fleets with the appropriate capabilities. With its versatile scanning features the new bizhubs make separate scan stations obsolete. All four devices scan up to 70 originals per minute in both colour and monochrome. The standard scanning functionalities include scan-to-email, FTP, SMB, Box, USB and TWAIN. Of course the new multifunctional devices process all relevant formats, such as JPEG, TIFF, PDF, compact PDF, XPS and compact XPS.
Konica Minolta Wins BLI Outstanding Achievement Award for Energy Efficiency
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta with a Summer 2010 "Outstanding Achievement" award for Energy Efficiency for their bizhub C452.
Based on its significantly lower than average projected annual energy consumption, which helped earn it a five-star rating in its Environmental Test Report, the Konica Minolta bizhub C452 has been honoured with an “Outstanding Achievement” award for “Energy Efficiency” in the A3 colour MFD category. This unit also proved to use a lower than average amount of energy in most running and non-running modes tested. Plus, its recovery times from energy-save and sleep modes are significantly faster than average, allowing users to set the device to go into its lowest energy-using modes without sacrificing productivity.
Konica Minolta Wins BLI Outstanding Achievement Award for Energy Efficiency
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta with a Summer 2010 "Outstanding Achievement" award for Energy Efficiency for their bizhub C452.
Based on its significantly lower than average projected annual energy consumption, which helped earn it a five-star rating in its Environmental Test Report, the Konica Minolta bizhub C452 has been honoured with an “Outstanding Achievement” award for “Energy Efficiency” in the A3 colour MFD category. This unit also proved to use a lower than average amount of energy in most running and non-running modes tested. Plus, its recovery times from energy-save and sleep modes are significantly faster than average, allowing users to set the device to go into its lowest energy-using modes without sacrificing productivity.
Konica Minolta and MESSAGEmanager Launch Enterprise Fax
Sydney, Australia – July 6, 2010 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced a joint enterprise IP fax software solution for the bizhub Multi-Function Devices (MFDs).
The Konica Minolta Fax Connector consolidates all fax services within an enterprise, providing convenient access to fax services on the same device used for printing, scanning and copying Konica Minolta bizhubs.
MESSAGEmanager IP Fax software enables users of MFDs, E-mail, Desktop, CRM and ERP applications to send and receive facsimiles over IP networks.
MESSAGEmanager integrates with all popular IP Telephony systems and runs in a virtual environment.
Organisations still rely on fax for important business communications, and continue to send and receive billions of pages of fax each year. Fax is inexpensive, reliable, virus-free and legally binding, but finding efficient and effective ways of managing it is often a business challenge. The Konica Minolta Fax Connector provides a simple solution for organisations to centralise fax administration and drastically reduce communication costs.
Next Generation Scanning with the New Multifunctional Konica Minolta bizhub C652DS
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today introduced it’s new multifunctional colour product, the bizhub C652DS, with superior scanning capabilities – available from June 2010.
With a duplex scanner and an impressive scanning speed of up to 156 images per minute (ipm), the device is the ideal professional document archiving solution for CRDs, large workgroups and busy departments. Furthermore, the bizhub C652DS offers printing, copying and faxing in colour as well as in black-and-white with high quality and reliability, thus perfectly serving as a central communication device for offices.
The fast, easy to use bizhub C652DS streamlines important workflows and document sharing of information which is essential in today’s business environments. The bizhub range is perfect for any office where the efficient capture and distribution of documents is important,” said Reese Malcolm, Product Manager, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia.
The standard bizhub C452 as well as the C552 and C652, which were both decorated as “2009 BERTL’s best productive colour printer”, reach high scan speeds of up to 78 ipm. They also support various file formats and scan-to functionalities. These are strong arguments in the ongoing discussion about environmental friendly, paper saving and cost effective information management. Such focuses have made duplex printing an increasingly important feature and has also spurred demand for duplex scanning.
The new bizhub C652DS supports the intelligent Dual Scan technology that simultaneously scans both sides of a duplex original as a standard and thereby delivers a scan speed of up to 156 monochrome or colour ipm (78 duplex printed pages). Dual Scan means a major facilitation in large workgroups’ and CRDs’ daily routine.
Konica Minolta Wins Three 2010 On Demand Best of Show Awards
Sydney – April 28, 2010 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced the company has been recognised at this year's ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition (April 20 through April 22) at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre in Philadelphia, with three "Best of Show" awards in digital imaging product and solution categories.
Konica Minolta has received the following awards:
- Colour Digital Printing Equipment – bizhub PRESS® C8000
- Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment – bizhub PRO® 950
- Web To Print Solutions – Printgroove® v1.5
"These awards are meant to recognize exceptional innovation in the digital printing industry," stated Jeff Hayes, President, InfoTrends. "Konica Minolta is one of the leaders in our industry, and we are pleased to acknowledge their accomplishments."
bizhub PRESS C8000 – The flagship of Konica Minolta's next generation of digital presses. Combining stable, high-resolution output with uncompromised full-color quality at fast output speeds of 80 pages per minute (ppm); the bizhub PRESS C8000 introduces the new brand to print professionals as an ideal replacement for full-color offset systems.
Konica Minolta Announces the Upcoming Release of the bizhub PRESS C8000
A breakthrough digital press that truly compares to offset.
Konica Minolta has today announced the upcoming release of a new flagship model, the bizhub PRESS C8000.
The new top line model is Konica Minolta’s next generation digital press. Featuring superior colour accuracy and management, enhanced media handling and impressive productivity, making it an outstanding introduction to Konica Minolta’s digital colour range.
The release also introduces a new brand in Konica Minolta’s digital press range, bizhub PRESS. The launch of bizhub PRESS signifies the emergence of Konica Minolta into the heavy digital production arena. The PRESS brand will be associated with products that are designed to meet the stringent requirements of the commercial offset and high volume digital environments. Image quality, durability, flexibility and volume capability are all focuses of the PRESS brand.
The bizhub PRESS C8000 is the first in this new line of products. It will be shown first at On Demand this month.
Konica Minolta Counts Down to IPEX 2010
Sydney, 5 March 2010
With only 70 days to go, Konica Minolta counts down to IPEX 2010.
From the 18 to 25 May 2010, the company is presenting at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, its professional printing solutions for central reprographic departments, commercial printers and the graphic arts industry.
“Expect impact” is the slogan of Konica Minolta’s presentation this year with demonstrations showing print professionals how to make an impact by means of comprehensive solutions – in terms of growing business, achieving more flexibility and serving customers better. Visitors can see, touch and experience the Konica Minolta product line – including brand new innovations – as well as live applications in Hall 9, at Stand 9-DE340.
“Our experts at IPEX will show how our technologies and services open up additional business opportunities in the printing and graphic arts sector, showing printing professionals what they can offer their customers in terms of end products, print quality and services.” says David Procter, National Marketing Manager at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia.
“We have also secured a number of tickets to the exclusive “Great Aussie BBQ” held at an old English pub during IPEX. These tickets are reserved for Aussie customers who pre-book a demonstration of our new digital press at the Konica Minolta stand.”
