Always being one step ahead – this is Konica Minolta’s approach. With the further enhancement of their high end office colour MFPs bizhub C654e and bizhub C754e, Konica Minolta sets new standards: Although both predecessor models, bizhub C654 and C754, have already received the highest award for their performance and usability by BLI at the Summer “Pick” 2012 – Outstanding Achievement Award, both devices underwent further enhancements to boost their productivity. The new bizhub C654e and C754e will maximise efficiency and productivity while minimising expenditures at corporate environments. With output speeds between 60 (colour) and 65 / 75 (black and white) pages per minute, both devices are perfect for large departments, centralised office locations and CRDs.
Langenhagen/Germany, 11th of July 2013
While performance and productivity of the predecessors are already exceptional, Konica Minolta’s intention was to enhance the overall workflow performance of the bizhub C654e and C754e by simplifying usability. Therefore, the user panel, which was awarded with the BLI Summer “Pick” Award in 2012 for “Outstanding Achievement in Control Panel Design”, received further enhancements to increase intuitive handling. In addition to the already exiting multitouch features, which are similar to those of smartphones or tablet PCs, Konica Minolta added features such as “pinch in pinch out”, which enables the user easily to zoom into documents for content check or to read information on internal and external websites. Moreover, a drag and drop feature was implemented to simplify the moving of MFP-stored documents to the required function, e.g., printing, copying, sending or even changing the overall page order. Thanks to the rotate feature, scanned documents can be even reversed.
Regarding the customisation features, users already benefit from the standard possibilities of the predecessors. But now, Konica Minolta is even able to redesign the user interface of the panel to suit the customer’s individual requirements and work routines. This panel customisation is as flexible as a webpage which let even very brand-aware companies benefit from the customisation service adapting the whole design and user experience in order to optimise time spending in front of the MFP.
Another focus of the enhancement was the possibility to enable the user to operate in a suitable and convenient way without the requirements of any manual steps. Therefore, new feature options of the bizhub C654e and C754e have been added to a list of available functionalities. With the latest i-Options, which make manual steps unnecessary, users can directly scan into searchable documents such as docx, pptx, xlsx and pdf, directly print e-mail attachments or receive incoming faxes already text scanned as searchable PDF files. This allows for further conversion without using any PC after the scan is completed.
Konica Minoltas enhanced devices address the requirements of the customer, and seek to relieve him or her from IT administration: With the latest internal application platform IWS, the bizhub C654e and C754e will be enabled to scan documents to and print documents from external sources by the bizhub connectors for Sharepoint™, Google Apps™ and Evernote™. Furthermore, the new devices can now be bound into Cortado ThinPrint environments. The bizhub C654e and C754e are designed for printing formats from A6 to SRA 3 as well as customised paper sizes and banner papers with a maximum size of 1.200 x 297mm. Both are able to handle paperweights of 52-300gsm and combine a wide range of finishing functions – such as stapling, punching, half- and letter-fold as well as booklet creation. Thanks to their flexibility, both devices offer high values for their prices and ensure that the investment will pay off for the customer.
“The performance of multifunctional products is often judged only by their specification such as printed pages per minute or seconds to the first print. However, performance is always interplay of the device and the user. That’s why Konica Minolta focused on improving intuitive usability, optimising hardware and user performance for the customer. All under the policy ‘Know one – operate Many’, meaning identical usability throughout the KM line up”, comments Lars Moderow, Team Manager Office Group at Konica Minolta Business Solution Europe GmbH.
Originally posted on Konicaminolta.eu
Byron Shaw 