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bizhub PRO C6500

The colour and finishing artiste
bizhub PRO C6500, production system
Production power through and through
Central reprographic departments and print for pay environments need colour print production facilities incorporating the full range of integrated finishing. In addition, commercial printers can welcome this versatility in order to cover a larger market. Quality, flexibility, reliability, durability and economy are the key words in this field.
The bizhub PRO C6500 represents a significant new development in the field of full colour devices. It is designed to service the needs of the production printing segment and to extend the already successful, capable bizhub PRO range. It incorporates the proven advanced Konica Minolta precision print technology in both hardware and software suites. The robust design assures top-quality at an impressive speed and the bizhub PRO C6500 capably deals with both long and short runs and guarantees a rapid turnaround. The high feed ability across the wide range of media combined with the extensive professional finishing facilities ensures a varied and comprehensive output choice. The bizhub PRO C6500s precision printing has a registration satisfying remarkably low tolerance levels for duplex and from page to page. The bizhub PRO C6500 gives the allround capability needed for production printing at its best. Service support with the reliable and convenient CS Remote Care further illustrates the Konica Minolta commitment to dependability.

Outstanding Key Features

Professional finishing: integrated and comprehensive Output speed: 65 ppm colour and b/w Target output volume: up to 200,000 pages per month Professional controllers: EFI and Creo available Paper capacity: input: up to 7,500 pages output: up to 8,400 pages Media flexibility: weight: up to 300 g/m2 media range: wide variety of paper media Print quality: Simitri-HD (High Definition) gives excellent colour imaging and impressive black density Ease-of-use: exceptionally straightforward with the full colour operator panel
System configurations tailor-made:
System 1 The system for reports With stapling finisher
System 2 The system for mailings and flyers With folding finisher
System 3 The system for all kind of booklets With booklet finisher
System 4 The system for existing finishing environments With stacker
System 5 The system for reports, mailings and flyers With folding and stapling finisher
System 6 The system for reports and existing finishing environments With stapling finisher and stacker
System 7 The system for booklets and existing finishing environments With booklet finisher and stacker
System 8 The system for mailings, flyers and existing finishing environments With folding finisher and stacker
System 9 The system for booklets, mailings and flyers With folding and booklet finisher

Technical specifications

Engine specifications
Speed Colour: 65 ppm, 3,900 pph B/W: 65 ppm, 3,900 pph Resolution Scan: 600 x 600 dpi Print: 600 x 1,800 dpi 1st copy/print Colour: 6.5sec. B/W: 5 sec. Gradations 256 gradations Magnification 25400% in 0.1% steps Multicopy 19,999, countdown, interruption mode Memory Standard: 4x 256 MB Max.: shared with copier HDDs HDD 40 GB

System specifications

Automatic document feeder Up to 100 originals Paper weight 64256 g/m2 Up to 300 g/m2 Paper size A5A3+ (330 x 487 mm) Duplex unit Non-stack type 64256 g/m2 Paper input capacity Standard: 7,500 sheets (incl. PF-601, 2x 3,000 sheets) Paper output capacity Trolley-mounted max.: 5,000 sheets Main tray max.: 3,000 sheets Per subtray max.: 200 sheets Max paper output 8,400 sheets Folding unit FD-501 Pre-printed sheet insertion (PI) 2 PI trays for 500 sheets each Punching (2 and 4 hole) Folding (half-fold, z-fold, gate-fold, letter fold, double-parallel fold, tri-fold) Subtray for up to 200 sheets
Booklet finisher SD-501 Booklet making of up to 50 sheets (200 images) Saddle stitching Trimming Output tray for up to 50 booklets Multi-sheet folding Staple finisher FS-503 Stapling of up to 100 sheets 2-point and corner stapling Variable staple length (cutting mechanism) Output for up to 3,000 sheets Subtray for up to 200 sheets Auto-shift sorting and grouping Large stacker LS-501/LS-502 Up to 5,000 sheets stacking capacity Trolley mounted stacker Auto-shift stacking Up to 10,000 sheets stacking capacity when used as a tandem Subtray for up to 200 sheets Warm-up time Less than 420 sec.

All specifications relating to paper capacity refer to A4-size paper of 80 g/m2 quality. All specifications relating to scanning, copying or printing speeds refer to A4-size paper that is scanned, copied or printed crosswise in multipage, simplex mode. Some of the product illustrations contain optional accessories. Konica Minolta does not warrant that any prices or specifications mentioned will be error-free. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks, of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. Printed in Germany on chlorine-free bleached paper.
Your Konica Minolta Business Solutions Partner:
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Europaallee Langenhagen Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 04-0 Fax: +49 (0) 10 50

The IC-303 print controller
Designed for productive performance

Print Controller IC-303

IC-303, print controller
Two innovations, one goal: perfect results
The IC-303 and the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500
Powerful printing performance, innovative features and flexible operations: The EFI IC-303 external image controller and Konica Minoltas colour and finishing artiste bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500 form an unrivalled combination of state-of-the-art technologies designed to meet the performance-driven requirements of reprographic departments and print-for-pay shops. Their quality, flexibility, reliability and ease of operation make them an ideal choice for demanding users in professional production enviroments. By combining the IC-303 controller featuring the innovative System 8 software with the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500, you can take full advantage of the brillant results and optimised workflow solutions offered by enhanced full-colour digital printing. Outstanding print quality, media flexibility, various in-line finishing options are only some of the features you will benefit from. The intuitive user interface is simple to operate The powerful software optimises workflow control n Superior colours with the ColorWise management system n Accurate spot colour reproduction with Spot-On n Exceptionally fast Variable Data Printing support
The perfect combination of the IC-303 and the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500 means high-quality, efficient and easy colour printing for professional demands!

bizhub PRO C6500e/eP

bizhub PRO C6500

Easy, exact, excellent

Command WorkStation for easy print job control
The multi-award-winning Command WorkStation provides maximum control for the easy and efficient production of digital print jobs. This far-reaching centralised print management software supports and supervises the functions of multiple controllers. Whether run from a desktop or locally at the colour server, the Command WorkStation is an extremely fast and very effective tool to enhance workflow and increase productivity. It streamlines operations by keeping the need to open and navigate multiple windows and dialogue boxes to a minimum and substantially reduces the number of keystrokes required to activate any function.

Command WorkStation

The Command WorkStation not only considerably accelerates job set-up times but operators can immediately preview the effects of setting changes in real-time. Features that define access to files and settings also ensure high security standards.
Spot-On for exact matching
ColorWise for maximum consistency

ColorWise Pro Tools

Spot-On
This innovative colour management system is an exacting utility for superior named colour matching that makes printing, creating and managing custom spot colours accurate and easy. PANTONE library colours are automatically matched with their best CMYK equivalents and the HKS, Toyo and DIC spot colour systems are supported. Manual controlling is provided by Spot-Color Search, the graphical user interface, which also helps you locate the exact CMYK toner equivalents necessary to adjust the colour you want on any given device. Managing custom colours is easy: just group them into lists and specify names for them.
Making sure that the colours you print are the colours you want, regardless of application and platform, is the speciality of the complete in-RIP colour management system ColorWise. With a wide array of innovative and precise tools, the truly open ColorWise system provides utmost control of colour quality and consistency. With them, you can fine-tune output, configure personalised settings, accurately simulate the output of other devices, create custom colour profiles and select device link profiles.

Additional features:

WebTools RIP while print n Hot folder n Auto trapping n Scan n Security and data protection
Simple, swift, successful
Variable Data Printing support
The Variable Data Printing (VDP) support offered by the IC-303 controller makes one-to-one marketing in the print environment a reality by delivering personalised output. By linking print engines and databases, the information on each print can be individually tailored for a different target audience, no matter how large or small the print run is. And its fast, too: its open approach streamlines the production of files, ensuring that you can take advantage of the increasing capacities provided by evolving VDP technologies. It provides custom end-to-end attention to your needs, regardless of the data management system, generator software, page layout program or RIP you use. In conjunction with the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500, the IC-303 provides the keys to successful and profitable campaigns.

Variable image data

Variable text
Usable devices: bizhub PRO C6500e/eP or bizhub PRO C6500 Variable database content
VDP tools for speed and efficiency
PPML Personalised Print Markup Language (PPML) is an object-based open industry standard VDP language. It RIPs objects just once and then caches and reuses the images and data as required. By reducing network traffic, RIP performance is improved, ensuring that print engines can perform at or near their maximum speed. FreeForm Easy to deploy and support, this powerful and innovative solution RIPs master data just once, enhancing print engine capabilities. The standard FreeForm utility of the IC-303 controller eliminates the need to learn to use a separate front-end application. FreeForm 2 allows users to select individual pages from a multiple page master providing for even more personalisation possibilities and greater VDP applications flexibility.
Consistent, accurate, meticulous
ColorProfiler for precision results
Crisp, bright and true colours: thats what you want and thats what the ColorProfiler provides. This simple and flexible application enables you to create ICC profiles and exactly profile the CMYK response of the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500. Its proven robust technology ensures vivid results every time. The ColorProfiler also includes the fast, handheld ES-1000 spectrometer for easy and exact colour measurements. Used as an input device along-side the Graphic Arts Package, you can also create spot colour libraries with it.

Impose for smoother processing
The open architecture Impose is an essential and effective cross-platform imposition solution that can send jobs from any application, using any device, from any location. With Impose, you can edit and assemble entire documents before processing or RIPping files while using a PDF workflow. It is now easier than ever to view thumbnails and full-screen previews, edit without native files, add or delete pages and preflight to check for errors. You can also merge fixed or mixed page sizes among documents from multiple sources, regardless of the original platform or application. This solution is able to impose VDP jobs that can consist of multiple records of varying lengths. These can now be efficiently imposed in a sequence such as a booklet or as multiple records imposed on a single sheet. Impose greatly simplifies VDP workflow by providing operators with the ability to intuitively approach VDP imposition. Impose is accessed via the Command WorkStation and is compatible with all popular legacy VDP languages, and supports the industry standard PPML.

Impose

Rapid, robust, comprehensive
Production printing package for more flexibility
The digital on-demand market is constantly growing. Increasingly complex tasks like financial reports, training manuals, sales proposals, product catalogues as well as further multipage publications can now be produced, thanks to advanced digital devices. At the same time, however, deadline demands require decreased cycle times, even for the most complex print jobs. Service providers now measure lead time in days, or even hours, instead of weeks or months. The production printing package encompassed in the dynamic combination of the IC-303 and the bizhub PRO C6500e/eP and bizhub PRO C6500 provides the print-for-pay industry with additional flexibility and control, even though the deadline is demanding and the print job is intricate. The comprehensive finishing options can now be fully maximised, even when production requirements include multiple paper stocks and input sources, inserted blank sheets, pre-printed materials and tabsheets. The package includes: n Compose n Paper catalogue n Insert tabs n Print/Process next n Schedule printing n Advanced job re-order n Suspend on mismatch
Graphic Arts Package for powerful tools
The Graphics Arts Package comprises a unique and innovative set of precision colour output tools that make difficult tasks easy to resolve while producing repeatable results. The Graphic Arts Package greatly enlarges customer service capabilities and supports cross-platform printing, making the IC-303 an integral part of graphic arts workflows. The Graphic Arts Package includes many useful and resourceful tools to control, predict, manage and deliver the best possible colour results from the most advanced digital colour devices. Aside from being able to accept unlimited separations from files, it includes applications for quicker and more accurate proofing, provides a wide variety of simulation options and contains additional industrystandard colour tables. In addition, TIFF/IT files can be transmitted directly to the PostScript/PDF RIP through folders. The package include: n Soft proofing n Halftone printing n Paper simulation n Unlimited separation n HKS + Toyo + DIC spot colour support n Tiff/IT

Graphic Arts Package Premium Edition for the highest standards
Demanding users with exacting needs require sophisticated, state-of-the-art solutions. The Graphic Arts Package Premium Edition is designed to meet the most complicated and intricate requirements of professionals in todays advanced graphic arts market. Based on the Graphic Arts Package, the Premium Edition increases the level of colour management, proofing and workflow control even further. It is nevertheless still easy to use, regardless of the tasks complexity. In addition to the powerful tools already belonging to the Graphic Arts Page, the tools added to Premium Edition place the highest emphasis on: Colour quality and accuracy Output quality control n Repeatability to automate workflow and minimise errors n Accurately reproducing the characteristics of other output processes
All of these tools can be accessed through the user-friendly interface of the Command WorkStation software included in the IC-303 controller. Complex operations are easy to learn and simple to integrate into existing workflows. The result is optimum colour that even the most discerning designers and printers as well as their customers will appreciate. The package includes: n Image viewer n Soft proof PDF new n Integrated hot folder filters n Substitute colours n Postflight n Advanced trapping support n Paper simulation with frequency per colour n Control bar n PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 preflight n Progressives
Technical specifications IC-303

Hardware

Supported devices bizhub PRO C6500e/eP bizhub PRO C6500 Type External CPU Intel Pentium IV @ 3.2 GHz Memory 1,024 MB Hard disc 160 GB Interface 10/100/1000-Base-T Ethernet

Print specification

Page description language PostScript 3, PPML, TIFF, PDF Printer driver Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Mac OSX Fonts 136 PostScript 3 Print functions Account control Priority Print Secure Print Variable Data Print

Software

Administration Command WorkStation Workflow standard Remote Scan FreeForm 2 ColorWise Spooler (only Mac OS) Downloader WebTools TWAIN scan Workflow optional Impose ColorProfiler Graphic Arts Package Graphic Arts Premium Edition Package Production Printing Package

Some of the product illustrations contain optional accessories. Konica Minolta does not warrant that any prices or specifications mentioned will be error-free. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged. Printed in Germany on chlorine-free bleached paper.
Your Konica Minolta Business Solutions Partner:
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Europaallee Langenhagen Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 04-0 Fax: +49 (0) www.konicaminolta.eu
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