INTEGRATED COLOR CARE UNIT IQ-501

Many time-consuming and cumbersome quality adjustment tasks can be automated with the IQ-501 Integrated Color Care Unit. Konica Minolta’s newly developed Integrated Color Care Unit achieves higher quality and more reliable consistency. With it, you increase your uptime, improve customer loyalty, optimise your budget and ultimately enhance the competitiveness of your entire printing business.

IQ-501 INTEGRATED COLOR CARE UNIT

Benefit from automated adjustments

GREATER OUTPUT AND SHORTER TURNAROUND Increased uptime

Job setup with all its comprehensive tasks is ac-complished in a minimum of time, which means that your printing press is available for the next job sooner, letting you maximise your turnaround and minimise your delivery times.

Functions

Auto Registration

Auto Color Real time adjustment

Improved customer loyalty

You want to make sure to produce the print quality your customers expect, today and tomorrow, from page one to page one thousand and beyond. With the Integrated Color Care Unit, you offer your customers high consistency and reliability print quality – so that your customers come back to you but not the products you printed for them.

Optimised budgets

The automated, hands-free processes of the IQ-501 avoid misprints and errors during the preparation of new jobs on your press so that even novice users can produce superior print quality in an instant. This frees up your high-value colour experts giving them time for more demanding tasks – all to keep your production costs at the lowest possible level.

INTEGRATED COLOR CARE UNIT IQ-501

Key features

Automatic colour adjustment – Various adjustments performed automatically to improve

print quality, accuracy and consistency – Uneven density minimised with density variation

adjustment – Best solids achieved with maximum density adjustment – High quality colour reproduction thanks to colour density

control – Smoothest gradations through exact colour reproduction

Automatic front to back registration – Fast and failure-free, automatic adjustment of front to

back registration for every paper type – Based on a printed test chart, automatic adjustment of

image position, size, skew and rotation; data saved to the paper catalogue for reuse every time the media type is selected

– Perfect match in an instant for best accuracy and precision

Automatic printing, scanning and analysis of front-to-back registration marks and gradient bars.

Real time colour and registration adjustment on the fly – Highest consistency and accuracy achieved by auto-

matic adjustment of colour and duplex registration – Monitoring of colour gradation patches and registration

marks on every sheet during the print run

Hands-free printer profiling – Quick and easy creation of print profiles – Direct access to the IQ-501 from several ICC profiling

software applications – Avoids the tedious manual routine of using an offline

spectrophotometer

Colour validation – Automatic measuring of colour difference between

printer output and standard colour, and indication of results

– Facilitates ensuring that printing is within desired targets and corresponds to customer expectations

– Ideally done before jobs that emphasise colour repro-duction or when updating printer profiles

Spectrophotometer

Scanner

Printed paper

Printed paper

Scanner

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