Designed specifically for graphic communication providers and central reprographic departments, Konica Minolta’s C1100 creates new sources of revenue and maximises uptime and print orders with two new colour production printers.
According to the company the two new digital colour production printers meet demands for completing a wider range of high-volume jobs more efficiently while meeting high-level specifications and enhancing output.
The printers will be powered by advanced digital front ends (DFEs) built for the bizhub C1085 and C1100 family of digital presses, in partnership with EFI.
According to EFI the updated Fiery IC-308 DFE and the new, high-end Fiery IC-310 DFE deliver exceptional performance and colour quality, end-to-end workflow automation and integration with the company’s MIS and web to print products.
The new Fiery IC-310 DFE brings accelerated production performance to the bizhub print engines with Fiery HyperRIP technology, which processes an individual job by splitting pages to simultaneously process them with multiple processor cores, interpreters and rendering engines. Read more about the DFEs here.
‘Performance – in a fast moving and changing market, digital press technology needs to be able to cope with high demands and multiple jobs whatever the nature of their complexity. With the bizhub Press C1100 and C1085, we take the next step in the colour production printer market after the great success of our first mid production system. We support every customers investment through our successful digital 1234 programme, offered to every customer to help them transform their business and enable a clear return on investment’, said Mark Hinder, market development manager.
With printing speeds of 100 ppm and 85 ppm, the bizhub Press C1100 and C1085 are the fastest of the company’s colour production printers. Printing jobs with tight deadlines can be completed more efficiently while cutting operating costs and work time. High-performance printing, same printing speed for paper weights ranging from 55 gsm to 350 gsm cardstock and automatic duplex printing all improve efficiency and prevent productivity loss.
Stable paper feeding is also achieved by various paper feed units, with or without scanner functions. Up to three former paper feeding modules can also be connected to boost the printer’s performance to a maximum of nine trays and a capacity of 13,890 sheets.
The SIMITRI HD E toner provides consistent high-quality image output and better environmental performance. Advanced S.E.A.D. IV image processing technology also improves image quality and reproducibility. The recently introduced combination of various features like paper alignment detection or auto adjustment has considerably improved paper alignment accuracy.
Flexible production systems meet professional demands and fulfil a wide range of post-processing requirements to increase profitability by reducing operating hours, cutting costs and adding value. The Press C1100 and C1085 feature a wide range of finishing options such as booklet production, perfect binding, auto ring binding and of course high stacking capabilities of up to 10,000 sheets with an enormous variety of ways to connect them and also facilitates one-step printing and finishing without manual intervention.
