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Digital workflow controller MicroPress Professional
MicroPress Professional
Works wonders
MicroPress Professional, Digital workflow controller
Pivotal
print control
of black and white and colour and it can allocate print jobs in the most effective manner.
This includes colour splitting and cluster printing, both particularly welcome for the efficient
rapid completion of mission-critical jobs.
Print quality is assured with the extensive and
remarkably effective user-friendly suites of
Document Make-Ready and editing facilities
and the state-of-the-art Konica Minolta print
technology.
The MicroPress Professional is technology
for the future now. It is the corner stone for
quality, flexibility, adaptability, speed and
cost-effectiveness.
Versatility for today and tomorrow
Konica Minolta and EFI present the MicroPress
Professional, a breakthrough in control technology for the management of on-demand production printing. It is suitable for an extensive
range of applications in the digital production
market, and will handle both current and future
needs. It represents a tremendous step forward in performance and reliability.
The key to its superlative control versatility is
the refreshingly accessible, user-friendly, unified GUI which communicates in an identical
fashion with any of the bizhub PRO production range, namely: bizhub PRO 920, bizhub
PRO 1050 and bizhub PRO C500. It has the
capacity to link up to an amazing four print
machines in any configuration independent
For professional quality printing at a remarkable speed coupled with exceptional versatility and reliability the superb digital
bizhub PRO range, backed by the essential,
innovative Konica Minolta technology, is
the backbone of any production printing
environment. MicroPress Professional can
combine up to four devices. That covers
every variation that could be wished for.
The impressive modular system of each
device means that whatever the requirements
are, there is a configuration to suit – both
now and in the future.
The bizhub PRO C500
For colour professionals
Digital colour printing at its best with impressive speed and reliability the bizhub
PRO C500 is particularly cost-effective
thanks to the Simitri
®
polymerised toner and
offers terrific media flexibility.
Up to 51 colour prints per minute, 3,060
colour prints per hour
Up to 150,000 colour prints per month for
the maximum duty cycle
Up to 256 g/m
2
for one-sided and up to
209 g/m
2
for two-sided
Up to 4,250 sheets paper feed and up to
3,200 sheets output capacity
Flexible finishing features e.g. booklet –
up to 20 sheets with trimming
The bizhub PRO 920
Capability, quality, capacity
The all-round workhorse for high-volume
office printing, smaller CRD environments and
digital print services, the bizhub PRO 920
gives excellent results combined with impressive speed and modular finishing features.
Up to 92 prints per minute, 5,520 prints
per hour
Up to 750,000 prints per month for the
maximum duty cycle
Up to 200 g/m
2
for one-sided and twosided
Up to 6,150 sheets paper feed and up to
3,200 sheets output capacity
Versatile finishing features e.g. booklet –
up to 20 sheets with trimming
The bizhub PRO 1050
Even greater productivity, diversity,
cost-efficiency
This is the absolutely superior top-of therange powerhouse with a wonderful variety
of features which really delivers. The facts
speak for themselves.
Up to 105 prints per minute, 6,300 prints
per hour
Up to 1.5 million prints per month for the
maximum duty cycle
Up to 300 g/m
2
for one-sided and up to
244 g/m
2
for two-sided
Up to 9,000 sheets paper feed and up to
10,000 sheets output capacity
Extensive, versatile finishing features e.g.
booklet – up to 50 sheets with trimming
production range
The bizhub PRO
MicroPress Professional, Digital workflow controller
Sophisticated simplicity
The MicroPress Professional fulfils the
perfect pivotal print management role.
It covers Document Make-Ready, Print
Output Management and Print Monitoring.
It embraces any form of incoming data
and operates with a GUI which is applicable to all machines and operations, thus
ensuring full compatibility, remarkable
versatility, excellent quality, maximum
productivity, a short learning curve and
excellent cost control.
Fantastic
fast workflow
MicroPress Professional
Spooler RIP
PrintStation Manager
TrueColor
TrueEdit
Imposition
Document merge
Archive
Media catalogue
Preview
Colour split
Cluster printing
Client PC
Client PC
Client PC
LAN
Scanning
Direct Data Import via
USB
CD
DVD
hot folder
Incoming data from any source is automatically spooled, queued and ripped – ready for the PrintStation Manager.
Colour split
Colour split will automatically and immediately separate colour from black and
white pages within a document and
allocate the print jobs to the appropriate
output devices. This furthers flexibility,
improves the handling of mission critical
jobs and represents a tremendous
saving potential.
Cluster printing
To accommodate variations in job size and
workflow cluster printing spreads a job
simultaneously across several identical
devices. This flexibility heightens performance and speed which is particularly
beneficial for mission critical jobs.
Effective
productivity
One document
with 5,000 pages
Page 1– 2,499
Page 2,500 –5,000
MicroPress Professional, Digital workflow controller
The PrintStation Manager (PSM) is the control
tool for all print jobs and is designed to maximise productivity. It is equipped with an allembracing Graphical User Interface (GUI)
which is intuitive, extremely user-friendly and
requires an incredibly short learning curve. The
enjoyment of the sheer simplicity and straightforwardness is further heightened in the knowledge that all print engines are controlled in
an identical manner. A truly universal solution.
The PrintStation Manager deals entirely with
ripped data. This produces these essential
major benefits:
Compatibility between different sets of data
(e.g. Word, QuarkXPress, PDF) is assured.
The complete independence from the original application and author means the key
operator can entirely concentrate on the
quality of the document. This is particularly
advantageous for merging and editing of
documents.
Printing can take place immediately once
the data has been edited and/or processed.
universally yours
PrintStation Manager
PrintStation Manager
Document Make-Ready
An extensive range of options designed to
streamline document production and finishing.
Imposition – The following imposition templates are available: booklet, perfect
bound, stack and repeat, cut and marry and
double mint as well as user defined. After
the document is essentially finished the
imposition template is selected and the
PrintStation Manager automatically prepares
the arrangement of pages for printing.
Document merge – As all documents are
in the ripped form they can be combined at
will. This is a remarkable benefit and enables
the key operator to speedily produce the
required new documents without needing
to consider compatibility. For example, a
new document can be produced from components created by different applications.
Page numbering – The addition of numbers
to pages – generally required after merging
and editing.
Archive – For the freeing of valuable storage
space and the optimisation of print job
organisation each print job can be stored
where it is required. Further flexibility is
achieved with the use of the PDF format or
other formats.
Forms – Insertion of personalised and/or
variable specific data onto a basis of a
particular form.
Media catalogue – The five magazines for
paper input are internally pre-determined.
There is of course the option to introduce
new media. The key operator needs only
specify the media required and the PSM
automatically selects the correct magazine.
Preview – The presentation of the print job
page by page on the screen.
Everything under control
The PSM is also equipped with a complete
monitoring service. This enables the key
operator to maintain an overall view of the
status of all aspects of the entire production
process, plan replacements and top-ups and,
in the event of irregularities, to respond immediately. This is a great all-round time saver.
Document merge
Imposition
MicroPress Professional, Digital workflow controller
refinement
Full view and
TrueEdit
At the heart of TrueEdit is the first class preview
function. This tool has the power to display the
whole document or any subset of the document on the screen, naturally including thumbnails at page level to indicate each finishing
decision. The key operator can then immediately edit at page level or organise the whole
or any subset of the document. The preview
function is pure versatility at a mind-boggling
speed, consequently reducing proof printing to
a rare occurrence.
Further major benefits of using only ripped data
soon become obvious with the application of
TrueEdit. The available editing tools are very
effective, fulfilling all needs and are operated
with amazing speed and ease. The complete
independence from the original application and
author means the key operator can concentrate entirely on the quality of the document.
TrueEdit includes the following functions
Adding text to a page
Adding graphical elements to a page
Removing contents
Inserting tabs
De-skewing and de-speckling
Deleting pages of a document
Reordering pages within a document
TrueEdit
TrueColor
The brilliance of
A superfine software suite from EFI incorporating RIP calibration and colour matching within
an exemplary GUI.
Gammatic
Gammatic is the premier tool for the automatic calibration and colour balancing of
the bizhub PRO C500. Maximum density,
grey balance and linearisation are all set in
a single step and the printer response is
modified to match the critical ICC colour
profiles. Gammatic also provides a consistent platform for printing RGB, CMYK and
other proprietary spot colour models.
ConTune
ConTune assures colour consistency and
quality across several bizhub PRO C500.
The sliders provide an easy visual “fine
tune” and the curve function offers precise
control. If necessary the calibration can be
periodically checked. Calibrations can be
saved and applied to one or more bizhub
PRO C500.
ICC profile processor
This intelligently maps each colour system
to the correct CMYK values for each printer.
It can automatically recognise RGB, CMYK,
lab and spot colours even when mixed on
the same page.
Spot colour matching
Incorporating a unique spot colour handling
system, this is the most accurate Pantone
®
colour matching in the industry. For even
easier colour selection the spot colours can
be printed as a swatch.
TrueBlue
TrueBlue edits any spot colour, library colour
or any custom defined CMYK colour. The
user can either select a rendering from the
“easy-to-match” range, enter self-defined
CMYK values or read in values from a spectrophotometer.
TrueCurves – universal curve creation
This is a comprehensive seamless approach
to colour quality variation. The four toner
curves, one for each of CMYK, can be adjusted together or individually through anchor
points and mouse drag. There is also the
hue circle and the brightness and contrast
sliders. TrueCurves is an infinitely variable
colour control system. To complete the ease
of operation the effects of the changes can
be viewed on the screen alongside the original throughout the adjustment process.
TrueBlue TrueCurve
MicroPress Professional, Digital workflow controller
and versatility
Black-and-white quality
TrueImage
These user-friendly options are available for the
fine tuning of the following processes in order
to maximise black and white print quality. Each
change can be saved and is then applied to
all subsequent ripping of documents in the
respective category.
TrueCurve
This is particularly beneficial for the improvement of photographs, and other graphical
elements. Throughout the adjustment
process the effects of the changes can be
viewed on screen alongside the original.
As well as contrast and brightness sliders
there is the completely versatile, graphically
displayed toner curve to evenly adjust toner
coverage in particular parts of the document.
Screening setup
LPI, dot shape and raster angle play an important role in the quality of digital printing.
Screening setup is an intuitive and straightforward tool so that the key operator can
experiment with various settings for each
of the three in order to maximise the quality
of the finished product.
RIP setup
Easy adjustment of the RIP via the userfriendly GUI.
Screening setupTrueCurve
scanning
Fully functional
MicroImager
The add on MicroImager is powerful and extremely easy to use and provides the ideal
scan-and-use and scan-and-archive platform.
A whole range of possibilities is available from
the simple printing of a hard copy through the
incorporation in an existing document to the
full archiving facility.
The open standard architecture means that the
scanning source can be any of the installed
print engines or any external TWAIN compatible
scanner and that TIFF, PDF, PostScript and
BMP files can be processed.
With the WYSIWYG Editor the images can be
easily scaled, de-skewed and de-speckled and
margins can be set.
MicroImager MicroImager
hot folder
Scanner (TWAIN)
MicroImager
Quick Copy
Work Flow
Definitions
PrintStation Manager
TrueColor
TrueEdit
Imposition
Document merge
Archive
Media catalogue
Preview
System Printer
eMail
hot folder
FTP
Konica Minolta
Business Solutions Europe GmbH
Europaallee 17
30855 Langenhagen
• Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 511 74 04-0
Fax: +49 (0) 511 74 10 50
Technical specifications
Your Konica Minolta Business Solutions Partner:
51051310304/11-05/Buchheister
Hardware
Supported devices
bizhub PRO 920
bizhub PRO 1050
bizhub PRO C500
Type
External
CPU
Intel Pentium IV @ 3.4 GHz
Memory
1,024 MB
Hard disk
160 GB SATA
Interface
2x 1000-Base-T Ethernet
Print specification
Page description language
Adobe PostScript 3
PCL 5
Operating systems
Windows 98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP
Mac OS 9.x/10.x
Job management
PrintStation Manager
Media Catalog
Clustering
Colour splitting
Archiving
MicroPress Professional
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Printed in Germany on chlorine-free bleached paper.
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