News Article Business Solutions

Langenhagen, June 2007

Konica Minolta's latest addition to the bizhub range has already been accredited with a prestigious industry award. The compact, high-speed bizhub C451 was part of the bizhub range recently crowned BERTL's BEST for Departmental Colour 2007. The bizhub C451 is the latest addition to include the new InfoLine, combining cutting-edge design and innovative technology.

The bizhub C451 is the most compact in its class and designed to be the hub of the office with its 360° design. Despite its size this MFP packs a powerful punch with its speed and multifunctional capabilities. Thanks to its tandem print technology the bizhub C451 is equally productive in both black and white and colour, with an output of 45 pages per minute. It also features an impressive warm-up time of only 85 seconds.

From the same product line as the bizhub C550, this device exhibits the same unique design that ensures it will be a stylish addition to any office environment.  Features include a full-colour, wide display and tilting touch screen that can be moved to suit a desired position. This screen features thumbnails of each job in the user box, allowing operators to release documents as and when they need them.  This same function on the bizhub C55O was awarded BERTL's first innovation award win.

As well as its sleek exterior, the bizhub C451 features many of the most attractive components of bizhub C550 including: innovative induction heating fusing, Emperon controller technology, fast dual-beam laser writing. It also uses Konica Minolta's Simitri HD toner, guaranteeing outstanding print quality and preventing colour fade or cracks regardless of paper type.

A unique optional feature of the bizhub C451 is the embedded staple finisher and punch kit. This flexible finisher makes booklet production and hole punching easy and features a mail bin function for seamless document clean ups.  Additionally, the bizhub C451 is capable of printing banners of up to 1.2 metres in length.

Olaf Lorenz, General Manager, Product Marketing Division for Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe says, "We are delighted the bizhub C451, the latest addition to our award-winning range, has gained so much recognition already.  We are confident that this MFP will meet the high standards that office printing demands and go on to be a best-seller."

In addition to the set functions, the bizhub C451 offers a selection of optional extras including the BERTL award-winning biometric finger vein authentication scanner. This allows only authorised users to access a company's intellectual property, ensuring the device and network remain secure.

About BERTL
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About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH is a leading provider of image information products with subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries in the EMEA region. The company places major emphasis on the document management and solution business in the office and production environment, especially in the field of colour output as well as related supplies. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is a subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. With a total workforce of 19,800 employees world wide, Konica Minolta Business Technologies gained a net sales of over 4.41 billion Euros in fiscal 2006/2007. Building on its strong core of optical technologies developed over many years as a printer and camera manufacturer, Konica Minolta Business Technologies aims to be a corporation offering products and services that are essential to all areas of digital imaging. www.konicaminolta.eu

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Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe
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