[dropcaps style=’2′]Konica Minolta is production inkjet with the AccurioJet KM-1 UV Inkjet Press. Behind this revolution is a long and powerful history of Konica Minolta technologies that are being leveraged to change the commercial production print environment.[/dropcaps]

“Konica Minolta is committed to be among the top manufacturers in the commercial and packaging printing arenas, and is investing a substantial amount of R&D dollars to do it. Company is continually investing to bring solutions for their clients to add more value to print.”

Years of R&D combined with real-world market leadership in key technical components – inkjet heads, ink, and processing technologies – were brought together as foundational components that led to the revolutionary new AccurioJet KM-1 Press.

Konica Minolta has a deep inkjet history and the world’s largest market share – over 40% – in piezo inkjet heads. The AccurioJet KM-1 takes full advantage of the 20 plus years of Konica Minolta R&D commitment to deliver the graphic arts quality the AccurioJet KM-1 is gaining world-wide recognition for. Konica Minolta has taken that 20 year history of inkjet head technology, ink development, and processing technologies, and put them all together into a cutting-edge new product.

Konica Minolta has developed a new and unique UV-curable inkjet technology for a sheet-fed inkjet digital press AccurioJet KM-1, which achieves offset like high quality image with high productivity; 3,000 sheets per hour. A number of AccurioJet KM-1 have already run in the production lines of customers, and have gained reputation as ‘Real Digitalization Pioneer’ for commercial printing industry.

The single-pass inkjet printing technology, one of the key technologies for the high productivity, is still a big challenge for image processing. To avoid the dots coalescing, Konica Minolta has developed a new ink formulation and curing process which can control the ink viscosity precisely in the print head and on the recording media. With improved technology, controlling the gloss level of the image is reality. Combining them, Konica Minolta has succeeded to develop a printing system which achieves offset like high quality image with high productivity.

The UV ink that the KM-1 utilizes is not the same UV ink printers have traditionally experienced. Gone are the UV ink drawbacks of the past, replaced by an unconventional ink and delivery system that produces startlingly beautiful, graphic arts quality output.

“Konica Minolta has world class Business Intelligence Services and Global Client Services Organizations of engineers backed by a network of 24-hour call centers, supporting hundreds of thousands of customers today. Konica Minolta has a worldwide footprint and is a market share leader in the overall print industry.

Prospective clients are always surprised when they see the rich graphic arts quality of their files printed for them on the AccurioJet KM-1 which is nothing like traditional inkjet quality. They notice the impressive resolution and color gamut of the AccurioJet KM-1. It’s not what they would expect with inkjet.

The AccurioJet KM-1 allows print service providers to produce fully personalized 1200 x 1200 dpi, 23 x 29.5-inch sheets that compare to offset quality with no plates, no make-ready and no waste. The large B2+ sheet size enables more pages ‘up’ on a sheet than any other graphic arts quality digital technology on the market. Getting more on the sheet means getting the job done faster with fewer sheets, and driving a more profitable bottom line.

The AccurioJet KM-1 Press produces the equivalent of 18,000 full-bleed 8.5 x 11 inch pages an hour – that’s 300 letter size pages per minute. Since its digital, every one of those can contain variable content. Then when printers learn of the wide array of media types and weights that they can print on without any pre-treatment, they are always intrigued.