New Fiery FS500 DFE Platform Expands Printing Capabilities in Konica Minolta bizhub C750i Series

The Fiery IC-420 v2 DFE now available from Konica Minolta and its dealers uses the advantages of the Fiery FS500 platform to increase productivity, giving users simple, intuitive tools to quickly, efficiently and cost effectively print professional quality and personalised documents in the office. The DFE includes intuitive new Fiery TrueBrand™ technology, a powerful new feature that solves one of the most enduring challenges in office printing – accurate, consistent reproduction of corporate brand colours using Microsoft^® Office applications.  

“We continue to give customers more capabilities through our long-term relationship with EFI and this exceptional new Fiery DFE,” said Olaf Lorenz, Head of the International Marketing Division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “Together, EFI and Konica Minolta are bringing innovations to customers that add value to their daily work, especially with the very first implementation of Fiery TrueBrand – an easy-to-use tool that should be an essential solution for preserving corporations’ brand identity in common office documents.” 

Fiery makes getting terrific looking colour prints easy and fast for office users, including the ability to print large or complex PowerPoint^® files and colour-critical PDFs accurately and quickly. In addition, with the new Fiery IC-420 v2, users can easily: 

• Print accurate brand colours from Microsoft Office applications in just a few clicks using Fiery TrueBrand™, with no advanced colour knowledge required. 

• Increase productivity with a simple, intuitive way to print common business documents in just a few clicks using the Fiery Essential Driver* to spend less time trying to print files and more time getting work done. 

• Print professionally designed documents in-house without being a prepress expert. The Fiery JobExpert™ option detects design elements such as transparencies, overprints, spot colours and embedded profiles to automatically apply the right print settings, ensuring the print output will always be correct

• Use Fiery VUE to produce finished print materials quickly and easily, such as assembling multiple files into one booklet.

• Print personalised documents without the need to outsource design or printing costs, and respond faster to market and sales needs for effective communication materials, with Fiery FreeForm™ Create – an intuitive, free, multiple-award-winning VDP application.

• Make the best impression with printed documents using Fiery Edge™, the latest colour profiling technology delivering out-of-the-box colour and quality enhancements.

In addition to the operational improvements that come with the new Fiery FS500 DFE platform, customers benefit from the streamlined and efficient control and management capabilities of the latest version 6.7 of Fiery Command WorkStation^® – the industry’s most widely used digital printing job management interface. 

“The new IC-420 v2 DFE includes many additional productivity tools that give business users the power to produce professional-looking documents of all types, from newsletters and flyers to brochures, personalised communications and more,” said John Henze, VP of Sales and Marketing, EFI Fiery. “Leveraging our extensive technology innovation and expertise in digital printing, we have created a powerful, intuitive solution to enable office or enterprise customers to bring print back in house. That way, customers can reduce the costs associated with outsourcing and increase productivity, all while and increasing flexibility and schedule control.” 

In addition to the C750i, the Fiery IC-420 v2 DFE is supported by the Konica Minolta AccurioPrint C750i and the bizhub C650i, C550i, C450i, C360i, C300i and C250i models, all of which are from Konica Minolta and authorised Konica Minolta resellers. For more information about EFI Fiery Driven™ products, visit www.efi.com. 

About EFI

EFI™ is a global technology company, leading the worldwide transformation from analogue to digital imaging. We understand our customers want breakthrough technologies to lead them through their digital journey. That’s why we’re passionate about driving their business growth with a scalable portfolio of products, solutions, services, support, and world-class partnerships for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, building materials, commercial print, and personalised documents with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and workflow software. They work together to increase profits, cut costs, improve productivity, and optimise efficiency – job after job, year after year. We’re committed to our customers’ success. (www.efi.com) 

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About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. With its unique expertise in imaging, data processing and data-based decision making, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers – small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises and public sector – and solves issues faced by society. As a digital workplace solution provider, Konica Minolta helps its clients to identify and unlock the potential digitalisation holds and reach the next level in the digital maturity of their organisation by rethinking the workplace. In support of an ‘Intelligent connected workplace’, Konica Minolta offers cloud, IT, managed print and video solution services for remote working, collaboration, workflow management and automation and security. The company’s success in driving transformation is also confirmed by IDC, since the ‘IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print Transformation 2020 Vendor Assessment’ stated that Konica Minolta is ‘recognised globally as a leader in print transformation’. Konica Minolta has been a Microsoft Global Managed Partner since 2021. Konica Minolta’s Igniting Print Possibilities offering helps printers, converters and brand owners maximise workflow automation to increase efficiency. The company delivers consultancy in all communication matters as well as top-of-the-line production, packaging as well as label printers. Its finishing devices create print products that stand out and create added value. Konica Minolta has established itself as the production printing market leader for more than a decade in Europe (InfoSource). For an increasing number of organisations, success today is more than the narrow definition of financial prosperity – it also includes protecting the environment and having a positive impact on their workforce as well as the societies they are embedded in. With its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Konica Minolta has pledged to consistently pursue its sustainability and social responsibility goals. The company has been repeatedly recognised for its rich history of social contribution as well as for working towards achieving the SDGs throughout its business and supply chain. Konica Minolta is listed among “2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” and received the highest level in EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings. For its innovative service approach that complements their devices perfectly, Konica Minolta was awarded the prestigious ‘Buyers Lab PaceSetter Award for Serviceability and Support 2020/2021’ from Keypoint Intelligence. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With approximately 9,000 employees (as of April 2021), Konica Minolta Europe earned net sales of over 1.9 billion in financial year 2020/2021. For more information, please visit https://www.konicaminolta.eu/eu-en/news and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. 

* Available in Q3.

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