Konica Minolta BIZHUB PRESS C8000 User Manual

ST O P T HE PR E SS E S:

ANNOUNCING A REVOLUTION IN COLOR PRINTING

bizhub PRESS C8000

REVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGES FOR HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL COLOR

WORLD-CLASS COLOR AT 80 PAGES PER MINUTE. DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY THAT DOES AWAY WITH COSTLY, TIME-CONSUMING MAKE READY AND PRESS

SETUP. COST-EFFECTIVE OUTPUT THAT MAKES COLOR AFFORDABLE FOR YOUR CLIENTS AND PROFITABLE FOR YOUR BUSINESS. THAT’S WHAT YOU CAN COUNT

ON WITH THE BIZHUB PRESS C8000 – THE KONICA MINOLTA PROFESSIONAL THAT’S LEADING A REVOLUTION IN COLOR DIGITAL PRODUCTION PRINT.

Up to 4800 high-quality color pages per hour.

At 80 color pages per minute, the bizhub PRESS C8000
will raise your print production to the productivity
level of presses costing far more. But speed is only
part of the story. Speed plus color quality, image
stability and heavyweight throughput – that’s a
revolutionary combination of advantages to grow
your business.

The bizhub PRESS C8000 is the color professional
that commercial printers, print-for-pay facilities
and corporate CRDs have been waiting for. It helps
you meet tight deadlines by eliminating the need
for special training and the complex setup,
make-ready and plate-change operations required
with offset printing. And its digital workflow can
accommodate last-minute changes, web-to-print job
ordering, variable data printing and cost-effective
inline finishing.

The bizhub PRESS C8000 saves serious time and
money – making high-quality color printing more
affordable than ever before. Output is faster. Operation
is simpler. Finishing is automatic. Reliability will
keep you up and running. And color quality will keep
your customers coming back for more.

Eco Vision 2050 is Konica Minolta’s
commitment to protect the environment
– saving energy, preserving resources,
promoting recycling and reducing CO
emissions by 20% in 2015 –and ultimately
by 80% in 2050, to help sustain the
environment for generations to come.
Please visit our website to learn more
about our environmental initiatives and
our exclusive Clean Planet Program.

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What can the bizhub PRESS C8000 do for
your business?

If you’re a commercial printer adapting to the
realities of the digital era, you can count on the
bizhub PRESS C8000 to get you where you want to
go – breaking the cost barrier of legacy equipment
while maintaining the color quality and throughput
power that keeps you competitive.

For quick-printing locations, the bizhub PRESS C8000
offers cost-effective output, fast turnaround and
simple on-board touch-screen control. And
corporate CRDs, government printers and
educational and healthcare applications will
appreciate the wide range of paper handling,
finishing options and color management tools that
match the needs of any application.

Color presentations and reports. Corporate
newsletters. Human resource documents. The
bizhub PRESS C8000 does them all, even in small
quantities that wouldn’t be economical on offset
equipment. But it also does high-quality color
catalogs, sales materials, color billing inserts and
direct-mail flyers with variable data. Lightweight
package stock, heavy-stock postcards, business
cards and more. Plus saddle-stitched booklets up
to 200 pages – even perfect-bound books up to
600 pages, with color covers printed inline or
added post-fusing.

Count on Konica Minolta to lead the revolution.

In today’s highly competitive world, professionals
need new ways to save money. Safeguard the
environment. Offer innovative services. And
respond to changing needs from corporate and
commercial clients.

To protect the environment, we incorporate
sophisticated green technologies in every product
– lowering power consumption, offering energy­saving operating modes, producing high-yield toner
bottles designed for easy recycling. We also reduce
emissions, minimize pollutants and utilize recycled
materials throughout our manufacturing.

Konica Minolta has also been developing new
technologies to meet 21st-century realities. Our
bizhub PRO equipment has led the way in digital
production speed, quality and cost-efficiency. In the
bizhub PRESS C8000, we’ve taken the next
dramatic step – and given you a true color
professional that works faster, smarter and better.

With purpose-built equipment that stands up to the
most rigorous output demands, we’ve proven our
commitment to the production print industry. Once
you see the bizhub PRESS C8000 in action, you’ll
understand how far we’ve come – and how
valuable this revolutionary new digital press can be
for your business.

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1200 DPI
RESOLUTION:
greater image detail,
finer lines, more
legible characters
– in both color
and B&W, the
bizhub PRESS C8000
goes far beyond
the capabilities
of conventional
600 DPI systems.

1200 DPI

600 DPI

Optimized 1,200 dpi print resolution – and faster
data processing.

The bizhub PRESS C8000 offers 1,200 dpi print
resolution, to reproduce the finest detail in both
images and text. In close-up view, curved lines
reveal less jaggedness – giving letters and graphics
smooth, clean accuracy.

Advanced dot screen and FM screen technologies
provide color images with greater realism,
eliminating moiré and edge distortion. Outline
processing is optimized to make color characters
look thinner, and therefore, cleaner and tighter
against white backgrounds and thicken the
appearance of knock-out print characters against
color. Some competitive systems don’t offer
independent outline processing for color characters.

SUPERIOR COLOR IMAGES TO RIVAL OFFSET PRINTING

IMAGE QUA LITY THAT TAKES D IGITAL COL OR TO A WHOLE NEW LE VEL – THAT’S THE M OST IMPRESSIVE ADVANTAGE OF TH E BIZHUB PR ESS C8000.

A D IGITAL SOLUTION THAT PRODUC ES BR ILLIANT, VIVID COLOR IM AGES WIT H RIC HER TONE S AND HIGHER RESOLUTION. IMAGES THAT GIVE YOU THE

COMMUNICATIONS POWE R OF OFFSET PRESSES, AT FAR LESS COST.

Wax

Pigment

Ultra-thin film core shell

SIMITRI HD+TONER:
ultra-thin core
shell allows toner
particles to fuse
more quickly.

Exclusive Simitri HD+toner – now in its
third generation.

With the creation of Simitri®toner, Konica Minolta
introduced the world’s first polymerized toner
particles – smaller, more uniform particles that are
superior for reproducing fine detail.

New 3rd-generation Simitri HD+toner continues our
revolutionary leadership in toner formulation,
incorporating an ultra-thin core shell structure that
lowers its fusing temperature to allow faster print
process speeds with increased image stability. That’s
a major benefit for production print jobs – especially
ones that demand heavy paper stock.

Our new Simitri HD+toner also achieves a smoother
printed surface, creating spectacular high-impact
image quality. It minimizes friction, making it the ideal
color carrier for both thick and thin paper. And it
utilizes biomass, an organic resource that reduces
environmental impact compared to conventional toners.

Color stability, from first print to 10,000th.

For print professionals, color stability over the entire
press run is one of the most sought-after benefits of
any color printer. The bizhub PRESS C8000 is designed
to maintain a stable color image, continuously and
automatically – so first and final prints stand up to
the closest side-by-side scrutiny.

Konica Minolta’s innovative Screen-Enhancing Active
Digital Processing (S.E.A.D. II) system utilizes both
Color Density Control (CDC) and Image Density
Control (IDC) sensors to correct density without
slowing print speed or affecting print performance.

During continuous printing, the IDC sensor reads
patches of magenta, yellow, cyan and black to adjust
maximum density levels and correct half-tone density
automatically. The CDC sensor corrects color
gradations according to the paper stock being used,
providing smooth gradations in high density and skin­tone areas and maintaining the same gradation on
different types of paper. Image stability is also
maintained over time and on different machines, so
large-scale operations can count on consistent output.

To achieve and maintain precise 1,200 dpi resolution,
the bizhub PRESS C8000 incorporates an advanced
aluminum die-cast laser unit that writes information
more accurately and maintains density more evenly.
Its color registration adjustment system can even
calculate partial zoom errors. And its rigid construction
is the state of the art in reliable, consistent performance
– hour after hour, day after day, month after month.