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News Release from: Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK | Subject: IC-304 Print Controller for Bizhub Pro C6500
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2007
Print Controller For Digital MFPs
Support VDP
Konica Minolta Business Solutions' new IC-304 Print Controller for the 65ppm Bizhub Pro C6500 digital printing system is now available.
Based on Creo Color Server technology, the print controller offers Konica Minolta customers features for productivity, image quality and colour control, as well as support for variable data printing (VDP), said Konica Minolta The IC-304 Print Controller joins Konica Minolta's line of print controllers designed exclusively for Konica Minolta multi-functional products (MFPs) by Print On-Demand Solutions (PODS) group
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The IC-304 Print Controller is designed to streamline the print production workflow and to enable Konica Minolta customers to increase their productivity, claimed the company.
The IC-304 Controller includes an Intel Core2 Duo processor that accelerates the performance by 50 per cent, Adobe CPSI 3017 software, Acrobat 7, PDF 1.6 and Windows XP Professional (SP2).
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Features include ready-to-print files that can be adjusted for colour, imposition and page shifting without having to re-RIP the file, built-in pre-RIP and post-RIP imposition, unlimited print workflows with preset parameters and Gallop for vairabnle data printing that allows to print and RIP a file concurrently, said the company.
The IC-304 is described by Konica Minolta as a tailor-made print controller that takes advantage of the qualities of the company's Simitri HD colour polymerised toner.
The new server is claimed to offer a superior set of colour settings and professional colour-management tools.
Those tools, such as the Spot Color Editor, are said to be easy to use and effective in providing consistent, accurate colour and image quality.
Built-in JDF capabilities also offer connectivity with graphic arts and JDF workflows.
Konica Minolta customers are said to now be able to incorporate digital printing in to their existing JDF-based, web-to-print systems, or any other workflow configuration.
Jobs sent from the Konica Minolta Printgroove workflow system are delivered to the IC-304 Print Controller with a JDF job-ticket that includes all of the print parameters enabling fully automated, unattended printing and finishing, added the company.
The IC-304 Print Controller can connect in to existing commercial print workflows, resulting in full integration of offset and digital printing operations, faster turn-around times and reduced labour costs.
Urgent jobs, short runs and proofs, for example, can be re-routed from offset, to a digital workflow.
The print controller connects to Kodak Brisquw and Prinergy workflow management systems and to other third party workflow vendors via the PODS workflow partnership programme.
The architecture of the IC-304 Print Controller was designed to maximise production simplicity and productivity for variable data printing (VDP) said Konica Minolta.
The same tools and flows are used for static and variable jobs assuring zero ramp-up time for operators moving to VDP production.
Post RIP imposition, last minute colour changes, preview and pre-flight, APR (automatic picture replacement) and OPI are available and identical for static and variable data jobs.
The IC-304 Print Controller supports all VDP formats, including PPML, Optimised PDF, Optimised PostScript and Creo VPS (Variable Print Specifications).
The PODS VDP partnership programme ensures that output from 25 VDP system suppliers is compliant with the latest version of the Creo VPS format.
Users can choose any of the authoring tools supplied by those partners and are assured that they can immediately start creating full-colour, personalised documents, said Konica Minolta. Request a free brochure from Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK ...
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