Konica Minolta MicroPress Cluster Printing System
In
the world of on-demand printing, the Konica Minolta MicroPress Cluster Printing
System from Graphic Enterprises takes a giant step forward in performance
and reliability. Print mission-critical jobs when and how you need them
with a production system that meets the needs of today and can be easily
upgraded to meet the production requirements of tomorrow.
The Konica Minolta MicroPress is a mid-volume, short-run, on-demand, digital printing system designed for production printing of both black and white and color documents. It employs a "virtual printer" architecture that manages multiple connected print devices to ensure on-time delivery of the printed document.
A single growth-optimized Konica Minolta MicroPress can support:
Multiple print devices for black and white and color output
Network and Internet connectivity
Document production capabilities
Distribute and print capabilities
Automated in-line finishing
Need reliability? The Konica Minolta MicroPress defines the word. Through its multiple output device architecture and robust error recovery, if a print device should become disable the job is automatically routed to the remaining available devices.
The mission critical MicroPress provides:
Built-in redundancy, increased uptime
Just-in-time printing
The capability to run multiple job simultaneously
The capability to run a single job over all clustered print devices The ability to compress, archive and quickly retrieve files for future printing
Versatility? The MicroPress is ideal for a wide variety of applications. Its production capabilities are configured for such demanding environments as: quick printers, specialty printers, in-plant printers, direct mail houses, commercial printers, government and academic printers and corporate customers.
Features
Black and White Digital Printing:
- Print speeds
up to 496 ppm
- Reproduce 256
grayscale levels with subtle precision
- Small-grain Micro-Toning
system gives text and graphics clean, crisp clarity
- Superior paper-fedding
reliability with up to 58,000 sheet capacity for long print runs
- Automated, in-line booklet making capabilties include: center stitch, 2-hole or 3-hole punch, crease-fold, half-fold, Z-fold
Color Digital Printing:
- Print in continuous-tone
color with true 400 dpi resolution
- 11" x 17"
output on 12" x 18" paper for full-bleed prints
- Print speeds up
to 48 ppm color, 184 ppm black and white
- Supports a wide variety of paper stocks with up to 18,400 sheet capacity on longer print runs
Post-RIP Document
Management
Save time. Merge multiple documents from different applications; create
booklets; adjust margins and center documents; alter the document's layout
for easier reading or optimized printing; change page signatures and more,
all without sending the documents back to the original application or
RIPing the file again.
Variable Data/Personalization
With the MicroPress, you can merge various text and graphic files from
different sources into one print job to create personalized marketing
materials or accounting forms, training guides, books or operations manuals.
Consistent and
Accurate Color
The MicroPress ensures digitally printed color documents look the way
the were designed by offering a robust suite of ColorTools. Color documents
printed by the MicroPress look the same on every machine, every day.
Workflow Management
The MicroPress workflow management tools support electronic job submission,
soft proofing capabilities, job preview before printing, automated workflow
scripts, email, page and computer-based job status notification.
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