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Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada), Ltd.
Date Posted: July 24, 2009

Mississauga, ON – July 24, 2009 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd., (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that the bizhub PRO® C65hc was awarded the European Digital Press (EDP) Association Award for its dependable colour and productivity, and brilliance in digital colour. The EDP jury, consisting of experts in engineering, journalism and independent consulting, chose Konica Minolta's innovative printing system for its unsurpassed colour reproduction as the best full colour light production print system in the marketplace.

Featuring revolutionary High Chroma toner (HC toner) developed by Konica Minolta, the bizhub PRO C65hc colour production print system provides an unprecedented number of colours and exceptionally bright colour saturation for graphic arts companies, commercial printers, advertising agencies and other creative groups. In particular, users will benefit from the large sRGB coverage area along with the facilitated sRGB colour workflow. Additionally, the bizhub PRO C65hc reproduces a colour gamut extremely close to the sRGB colour space and also produces a far greater number of colours than any other device currently on the market. What you see is what you print (WYSIWYP) is the maxim for the new HC toner, making complicated conversion processes from sRGB into CMYK more accurate.

The bizhub PRO C65hc stands out from other products in its class due to its unsurpassed colour quality, its impressive media flexibility and comprehensive inline finishing options. The system processes up to 65 colour letter-sized pages a minute and easily manages media of up to 300 gsm. To facilitate selection, the bizhub PRO C65hc comes in different configurations, targeted to the most frequent customer finishing requirements. In addition, HC toner requires lower fusing temperatures than conventional toners while also producing lower C02 emissions.

"We are proud to have received the 2009 EDP award for the bizhub PRO C65hc as the group honors only innovative companies and their breakthrough products," said Kevin Kern, Vice President, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "This honor positions Konica Minolta as a true pioneer in the production print marketplace, and allows our customers to count on Konica Minolta for all of their high impact colour imaging needs.

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd.

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd. delivers world-class service through its extensive network of direct sales offices and authorized dealers throughout Canada. Konica Minolta is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies bringing together advances in security, print quality, and network integration via its award-winning line of bizhub® multifunction products (MFPs); bizhub® PRO production printing systems; magicolor® desktop colour-laser printers and all-in-ones; and pagepro™ monochrome desktop laser printers and all-in-ones.

Konica Minolta provides advanced solutions and software applications for device administration, document management, forms and variable data, cost accounting, print production, and more. Konica Minolta is also the first manufacturer and distributor of multifunction devices (MFPs) in North America to receive EcoLogo's newest office products certification (CCD-035 Office Machines, Multifunctional Device Category) - based on EcoLogo's latest and very stringent environmentally-friendly requirements.

For more information, please visit Konica Minolta at www.konicaminolta.ca/business
Learn more about Konica Minolta's bizhub line-up of products at www.allyouneedishub.com
For more information about Konica Minolta's environmental initiatives visit www.konicaminolta.ca/environment

Konica Minolta is a trademark of Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. bizhub, bizhub PRO and magicolor are registered trademarks of Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.