Since 1951, drupa has been held every four years and this year marks the 14th exhibition. More than 390,000 visitors from around the world attended the previous drupa in 2004. This year, the exhibition space will be expanded to over 170,000 square metres and exhibitors are surpassing 1,800. This is, of course, the biggest ever in its history.
In the field of printing media, combining offest printing and digital equipment in workflow is becoming more and more popular. This change requires specialised knowledge across all processes from prepress to press and through to postpress. Diversified printing equipment featuring high quality and high productivity is now available. That’s created new markets such as the one to one market adopting mail promotion method (TransPromo).
For such an evolving printing media industry, Konica Minolta Group has been demonstrating the newest equipment and workflow at the trade shows held worldwide, and presenting unique solutions nurtured through its years of experience in the industry.
At drupa 2008, three companies from Konica Minolta Group will be showcasing new products and state-of-the-art workflow solutions perfectly matching the market trend and business needs. Not only that, examples of improving operational efficiency and productivity, and new approach to add values will be shown at the booth.
Konica Minolta Group, with a view to always be ‘essential’ in printing media field, will continue to offer unique solutions to meet the needs of diversifying market demand and expectations.
Konica Minolta Exhibition
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH……Hall 9 Stand 9A26
To meet the needs of all the visitors expecting to improve productivity, quality and efficiency, we have posted ‘scale up’ as our motto for this year’s exhibition.
For medium production print market, high performance monochrome bizhub PRO 2500P will be unveiled. This latest model uses single-pass technology to print both face and reverse side simultaneously to offer high productivity and high quality at the speed of 250 images per minute (A4, auto-duplex). *(Model currently not available in Australia)
Also premiered at the booth are high-speed colour machine with 65 sheets per minute, bizhub PRO C6501, and high-speed monochrome machine with 105 sheets per minute, bizhub PRO 1050e. These machines ensure high quality, high reliability, and high durability, and offer value-added diversified in-line printing and optimal workflow.
One of the workflow management software to be demonstrated will be PrintGroove POD Suite to control total printing process. Moreover, newly developed cutting-edge polymerized toner suitable for graphic art field will be disclosed as reference exhibit. Rich in colour saturation, it reproduces colour closer to sRGB colour gamut. Visit www.konicaminolta.eu/drupa
Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc……Hall 9 Stand 9A26
Under the concept of ‘Professionalism,’ a wide range of prepress-related applications will be showcased at the booth. In the field of high quality and high-speed digital colour printing system, LD-6501, compatible with PDF1.7 and incorporating professional RIP PR-6500, will be demonstrated. Konica Minolta’s specialized workflow solutions, Imagehandler Pro and Pageintegrator Pro will also be demonstrated. Imagehandler Pro enables superb colour management and RGB image correction. Pageintegrator Pro supports variable printing essential for today’s one-to-one business. Another eye-catching exhibition is, high quality and high-speed digital colour proofing system, Digital Konsensus Premium. It is perfect digital proofing solution for CTP workflow. URL : http://konicaminolta.com/graphic/index.html
Konica Minolta IJ Technologies, Inc…….Hall 4 Stand No. 4F24
One of the notable premier demonstrations is inkjet printing using full-colour single-pass technology incorporating newly developed inkjet printhead. A new product to make debut at the booth is high resolution and compact design monochrome inkjet print unit, SP-M0320HR. Inkjet printing using full-colour serial scanning technology with KM printhead will also be demonstrated for the first time. In addition, Konica Minolta will display an array of piezo on-demand inkjet printheads for industrial use featuring high productivity and high reliability and compatible with wide range of inks including solvent, UV and oil inks. Together with printheads, Konica Minolta will showcase inkjet inks featuring brilliant colour, faithful colour reproduction, durability, as well as such environmental consideration as safety and lower odour emission.
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