Making inkjet the reality today
You asked for a print innovation. We make inkjet the reality today.
Innovation that will change print forever
Constantly innovating and thinking of how to offer your clients added value is critical for you to keep ahead of the competition. As the print and communications market continues to change, understanding how this will affect your value proposition is paramount.
Printing technology has gone through a big change over the last twenty years. Printing markets have needed to adapt accordingly. This has also meant that clients’ demands have changed.
Diversify your print products. Stand out from the competition.
Inkjet technology enables non-contact printing, making it perfect for printing on all kinds of media.
Here’s how to enhance your business operations in four steps with inkjet printing
- Identify your business opportunities
- Asses your business needs
- Justify your value proposition
- Implement successful inkjet solutions
Inkjet
We make inkjet the reality today
By using inkjet printing, you can diversify your print products and stand out from the competition. Konica Minolta’s inkjet technology enables non-contact printing, making it perfect for printing on all kinds of media.
Inkjet printing and automated workflows mean you can both increase profitability and reduce costs at the prepress stage. Extend your flexibility further still by using digital UV inkjet, which has a wide media latitude capable of printing on thin substrates, textured media and heavyweight board stock.
Go for B2+ inkjet with Konica Minolta
Increase your profitability and build a new business: Reduce costs in prepress, make ready and costly consumables to make short run jobs more profitable.
Extend your flexibility: Digital UV inkjet has a wide media latitude capable of printing on thin substrates, textured media and heavyweight board stock.
Be more productive: Move jobs to finishing without waiting for ink to dry – dispatch and invoice sooner.
Digital offset quality: Fine inkjet drops create superior images with sharp text and line quality without affecting photos and graphics.
Technology at the heart of your production: AccurioJet KM-1e is the world’s first UV offset duplexing press that uses offset gripper to gripper media handling for highly accurate registration.
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Success story
Rehms Druck makes uv inkjet the reality
Rehms Druck, of Borken, Westphalia, in north west Germany, has been a loyal Konica Minolta customer for many years using its toner-based system. However, the company realised in 2016, at drupa, that the time was right to invest in cut-sheet UV inkjet technology and, specifi cally, the AccurioJet KM-1. Employing 110 staff and with a turnover of €18.5 million, Rehms Druck wanted a production system to enable it to grow into new markets. It wanted one digital inkjet technology in a team partnership approach using world-class expertise.
Key business drivers for investment
Before making the decision to invest, Rehms Druck set out a challenge for Konica Minolta to print a range of applications and to prove the ROI of moving to UV inkjet. The AccurioJet KM-1 team produced a range of applications that included direct mail and packaging. Various factors were compared to existing print processes, including:
- Colour consistency over a long run
- Media handling and flexibility
- Job turnaround
- Variable data handling
- Workflow integration with Rehms Druck’s existence Kodak Prinergy system
Print quality had to match Rehms Druck’s extremely high standards, and those demanded by customers. Rehms Druck also set out a challenge that the break-even point had to be low enough to move jobs from off set to the Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 to allow them not only to save money but also increase their ability to turn jobs around quicker. Another a key factor was to reduce the lead time customers waited for work to be printed and shipped.
This would enable the company then to split work to prioritise the longer run lengths on off set, with the new UV inkjet press producing lots of small jobs improving their customers’ experience and at the same time increasing Rehms Druck profitability. A key saving was the ability to use the same media the off set presses were using on the new inkjet system.
This enabled the maximisation of purchasing power with paper merchants through the highly accurate colour capabilities of KM-1 to print and match their clients’ corporate colours. The result was not only increased efficiency, but jobs were proving to be highly profitable. Rehms Druck also wanted to grow business opportunities in new markets and innovate its print offering to existing and new clients with the ability to print on a wide range of new media, including plastics.
Rehms Druck - From traditional offset to digital inkjet with AccurioJet KM-1
The Germany-based print provider Rehms Druck has a history of being a traditional offset printing company. They decided to invest in Konica Minolta's digital inkjet press AccurioJet KM-1, in order to fulfill their customers' demands for short print-runs and production times, while keeping the ability to print on different substrates as well as producing highest print quality.
“Even a few years ago our management was open to exploring digital technology,” said Alexander Brand, Rehms Druck’s Assistant to the Managing Director and Project Leader. “We have been watching the development of UV inkjet very closely, as well as water-based. But we felt that water-based technology only addressed a certain amount of applications that we produce. Now the print quality for digital is there and we haven’t looked back.
The key benefi t is not only printing on all types of paper media, coated and non-coated, but it matched off set quality – this was criteria for our business. I can say without reservation that the AccurioJet KM-1 is a highly flexible, adaptable platform that has opened up a new huge world of opportunity for Rehms Druck.”
Konica Minolta solution
In addition to quality and performance advantages in the AccurioJet KM-1 B2 inkjet press, central to the decision to invest was the provision of support services from Konica Minolta. These included market planning, application development and insight, and on-site training. The solution required a business partner and one proven technology capable of printing packaging as well as commercial work. The ideal job on the KM-1 according to Rehms Druck is brochure work and manuals, but the company is also exploring different kinds of media to run on with the Konica Minolta B2 inkjet press.
Key benefits
- Patented technology that helps the Konica Minolta AccurioJet to “freeze” the inkjet drop, allowing for perfect registration of colours and image stability. The flexibility includes a unique ability to duplex (perfect) prints that come off the press and go straight to finishing.
- Wide range of media handling on uncoated and coated substrates from 0.06mm to 0.6mm. This means standard offset stocks can be used without pre-treatment.
- New markets have opened up because of the ability for UV inkjet to print on plastics, for point of sale, labels, loyalty and pre-paid mobile, gift vouchers and packaging on specialist medias.
- Other new opportunities now being developed involve using pre-foiled paper for gold, silver and magnetic applications.
- Super-fast turnaround and using different cuts has also created opportunities in B2C markets through Rehms Druck’s online shop offering.
The unstoppable rise of inkjet production
The unstoppable rise in inkjet production has been spotlighted by Konica Minolta as it continues to help customers on their digital transformation across commercial and industrial printing markets. Digital technology enables access to many features that customers in the commercial print, packaging and industrial sectors seek for profitable applications.
WERNER DRUCK & MEDIEN AG: A Success Story
Together, WERNER DRUCK & MEDIEN AG and Konica Minolta have aimed to focus more on business results and real applications that generate better business. As a result, 4 different technologies are now used: Toner, Inkjet and Laser Cutting. A really powerful and successful combination. Don't miss out on this fantastic success story.
Totem.com.pl: Book production with KM-1
Having previously outsourced book cover production, with the AccurioJet KM-1 the whole process can be managed in-house which enables Totem.com.pl to offer a real print on demand service, the company benefits from offset-like quality production and lower costs as well as the ability to print on standard offset media as well as cardboard, metallic grades and plastics that allows to support publisher creativity
Rehms Druck - From traditional offset to digital inkjet with AccurioJet KM-1
The Germany-based print provider Rehms Druck has a history of being a traditional offset printing company. They decided to invest in Konica Minolta's digital inkjet press AccurioJet KM-1, in order to fulfill their customers' demands for short print-runs and production times, while keeping the ability to print on different substrates as well as producing highest print quality.
Dimensions: 5,400 (W) x 3,000 (D) x 2,400 (H) mm
High-precision colour-matching technology
Image quality control
Machine weight: Approx. 9000 kg
Major reductions in preparation time
Number of colours: 4
Printing speeds: 3,000 sph (single-sided) / 1,500 sph (double-sided)
Resolution: 1,200 x 1,200 dpi
Sheet size: Up to 585 x 750 mm
Sheet thickness: 0.06 – 0.6 mm (single-sided) / 0.06 – 0.45 mm (double-sided)
Stable printing quality
Type: sheetfed B2+ perfecting UV inkjet press
Variable printing
Wide colour gamut
Ink: UV Ink
Technology at the heart of your production
Hardware
The AccurioJet KM-1e gives you the flexibility to print on almost any substrate – from heavy textured stock, folding carton, through to never tear expanding your application list and market potential.
Konica Minolta Software Products
Software
Explore the countless different ways in which Konica Minolta software products could improve your operations. Konica Minolta solves the problems of your company, matches different working styles, and offers software solutions meeting the needs of your industry. By prioritising your needs at all times, Konica Minolta meets the software requirements of even the most demanding global organisations. Using the system, you can keep a lid on the cost of any printed or copied output, create advanced security measures to ensure sensitive documents don’t fall into unauthorised hands, and more.
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Services
Our experienced, knowledgeable specialist staff will answer any questions you may have, and show you how to operate your product. Our services function for your benefit, within a support system designed to ensure you and your company benefit fully from the solutions. We offer a range of different services, including optimised print services to combine your consulting; hardware and software implementation; workflow management to lower your document spending; and smart security services, to keep your business safe.
