EFI and Konica Minolta have launched a pair of advanced digital front ends (DFEs) for the new Konica Minolta bizhub C1085 and C1100 family of digital presses.
According to EFI the updated Fiery IC-308 DFE and the new, high-end Fiery IC-310 DFE deliver exceptional performance and colour quality, end-to-end workflow automation and integration with the company’s MIS and web to print products.
The new Fiery IC-310 DFE brings accelerated production performance to the bizhub print engines with Fiery HyperRIP technology, which processes an individual job by splitting pages to simultaneously process them with multiple processor cores, interpreters and rendering engines.
The powerful hardware and feature set makes the IC-310 twice as fast compared to the IC-308 and streamlines the processing of graphic-intensive and variable data jobs to minimize data spikes and avoid lost production time.
‘Our ongoing relationship with EFI continues to put our solutions at the forefront of market-leading technology,’ said Kevin Kern, senior vice president, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA. ‘The advanced EFI Fiery DFEs give us the ability to deliver new and continued value to our customers to ensure a seamless, integrated experience.’
‘Konica Minolta bizhub C1085 and C1100 users can use our advanced Fiery DFE technology to scale their businesses for the future so they are prepared for evolving customer demands in high-end digital printing,’ said John Henze, vice president, Fiery marketing, EFI. ‘With this multi-core processing speed acceleration and Fiery servers’ proven, ‘perfect pass’ image reproduction, these DFEs provide an unmatched, competitive production advantage in commercial print and in-house CRD environments.’
Read more about the C1100 range of presses here.
With the extensive collection of standard and optional job and colour management solutions the Fiery IC-308 and IC-310 DFEs offer, users can be assured their jobs will print correctly the first time. Plus, the DFEs are based on the Fiery FS100 Pro platform technology – the first and only production platform to achieve a 100% perfect pass rating from industry organization VIGC’s PDF RIP Audit.
The Fiery IC-308 and IC-310 DFEs’ robust JDF capabilities allow for seamless integration with Kodak Prinergy and other third-party prepress and workflow solutions, so users can streamline their business operations. Users can also reduce the touch points in their business and production processes by integrating their DFEs with EFI’s MIS and web to print products.
