Press release Konica Minolta ready to impact at IPEX 2010 Langenhagen, Germany, May 2010 With IPEX only a few days away, Konica Minolta is ready to impact at the world s biggest English-speaking event for print, publishing and media at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. The Konica Minolta team at Stand 9-DE340 in Hall 9 will demonstrate how the digital printing solutions provider supports print professionals in improving their business by increasing turnout, achieving more flexibility and serving customers better. From 18 to 25 May, visitors will experience the new bizhub PRESS C8000 in a live demonstration for the first time in Europe. Flanked by the new bizhub PRESS C7000 and both industryleading partners and the company s own applications, Konica Minolta displays a strong focus on colour output and variable data printing. We are very much looking forward to welcoming our customers to our stand at IPEX, says Olaf Lorenz, General Manager Production Printing Division at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. We are proud to present the new printing systems of the PRESS series and the bizhub PRESS C8000 in particular. This series features superior colour accuracy and colour management, along with enhanced media handling and impressive productivity. The printouts it produces truly compare to offset. The new bizhub PRESS C8000 is the flagship of the Konica Minolta hardware that is showcased at IPEX. With the release of this system, Konica Minolta is strengthening its position in the heavy digital production arena. The company puts a clear focus on 1
image quality, durability, flexibility and volume capability. We see the bizhub PRESS C8000 as a perfect complement to offset machines. For this reason, it is particularly targeted at offset printers moving towards digital, for example Print-for pay businesses, says Olaf Lorenz. Other members of the PRESS brand are the bizhub PRESS C7000 and the bizhub PRESS C6000. They are similar to the flagship model in image quality and consistency. With an output of 70 and 60 pages per minute respectively, they are an excellent choice for newcomers to the production printing arena. Furthermore, Konica Minolta displays an array of its latest digital colour printing systems, including the bizhub PRO C65hc and bizhub PRO C6501. On top of its own printing systems, Konica Minolta displays Kodak Digimaster EX 300 for monochrome printing and KIP Color 80 for wide format colour printing at this year s IPEX. Another third party novelty - yet with a Konica Minolta inkjet interior - is the ColourPrint 282 by Industrial Inkjet Ltd. This machine uses the compact and reliable KM1024 printheads from Konica Minolta. To make Konica Minolta systems match individual customers requirements, e.g. support of variable data printing, the digital printing solutions provider keeps several applications in stock both its own and those of third-party suppliers. For printers focusing on high quality and repeatable colour output, Konica Minolta Color Care defines, achieves and maintains product-specific quality standards for any colour device. When extra creativity is the key to success, Konica Minolta s own creative Photobooks business tool is the perfect software. It is powered by Taopix and helps to create, control, organise and produce photo books. In addition, it offers cost transparency and features a straightforward workflow from the first to the final work step. For streamlining business, EFI Pace MIS is the right choice. It is a new browserbased, scalable and customisable print management system for restructuring operations, reducing costs and delivering quality customer services. Objectif Lune s PlanetPress is the appropriate tool for transpromotional publishing. It enables the production of transactional documents in which elements such as graphics, images 2
and text change from one printed piece to the next, using information from a database or external data file. Our versatile software components are a crucial part of our solutions portfolio for the professional printing market, says Olaf Lorenz. In combination with our wideranging hardware portfolio, we can offer customers a significant impact in quality, performance and profitability. 3
Press photo The bizhub PRESS C8000, Konica Minolta s flagship model at IPEX, features high image quality, durability, flexibility and volume capability. Konica Minolta s theme for IPEX 2010 Expect impact summarises the additional values that the company s professional printing solutions offer customers. The technologies, applications and services open up new business opportunities in the printing and graphic arts sector. 4
About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. The company delivers services and distributes products, systems and solutions that fulfil all the requirements of office and production printing over the complete document life cycle. Its product range extends from colour and monochrome multifunctional and production printing systems, laser printers and all-in-ones to modern software that integrates devices seamlessly into work processes and IT environments. To support customers such as printing and industrial companies optimally with powerful and sustainable solutions, technology leader Konica Minolta continuously invests in research and development work and regularly sets new standards for the entire printing industry. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). With 22,500 employees around the world, Konica Minolta Business Technologies earned net sales of over EUR 4.3 billion in fiscal year 2008/09. For further information about the company, visit www.konicaminolta.eu Product images are available at www.konicaminolta-images.eu Terms and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. Contact: Olaf Lorenz Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Phone: +49 (0)511 7404-378 Olaf.Lorenz@konicaminolta.eu Claudia Bitzer Ketchum Pleon GmbH Phone: +49 (0)711 210 99-416 KonicaMinoltaTeam@ketchumpleon.com 5