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Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada), Ltd.
Date Posted: September 14, 2009

Mississauga, ON – September 14, 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 Konica Minolta's award-winning bizhub PRO® C65hc with supporting technology from both CREO (IC-304 Plus Print Controller) and EFI (Fiery® IC-305 v3.0 server) has acquired PANTONE® Color approval and licensing thanks to its consistent colour reproducibility conforming to that of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®.

PANTONE Color is widely acknowledged and used as standard specified colour in the graphic arts and printing industries worldwide. Specific colour reproducibility is verified to actual printing by recall ratios of the number of colours of PANTONE Formula Guides that become indices based on the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. Featuring Konica Minolta's new High Chroma toner technology, the bizhub PRO C65hc greatly exceeds these offset print results using the industry standard delta E 2000 testing methodology. When compared with other printers in the same category the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C65hc has one of the largest colour gamuts pertaining to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM coverage among all the market-available, four-colour, dry-toner printing devices evaluated and licensed by Pantone.

"Konica Minolta recognizes not only the importance of developing such a unique colour digital press like the bizhub PRO C65hc, but also in having Pantone, the world recognized and respected colour expert, test and leverage its colour reproducibility," says Andy Hatkoff, vice president of OEM and technology licensing for Pantone. "Our teams worked closely to optimize the colour range from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colour look-up tables with press-like or better colour output, thus reassuring the industry of Konica Minolta's leading position in digital colour production print."

Having this extended colour reproduction range allows users to now print additional jobs not possible in the past, such as dynamic marketing collateral, brilliant corporate colour and logos, high impact direct mail campaigns, and more visible point of purchase displays, to name a few. With the support of this critical certification, customers of the bizhub PRO C65hc are finally able to separate themselves from the norm in a very competitive marketplace. Now, whatever the print enterprise, bizhub PRO C65hc users can keep control of more jobs in house for faster turnaround and win more print bids thanks to the excellent colour reproducibility approved and licensed by Pantone.

"Konica Minolta understands the importance of delivering the equipment and providing total solutions offering exceptional quality and eye-catching imagery that practically jumps off the page," said Kevin Kern, Vice President, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "With the additional support of the esteemed "Pantone-licensed" certification, print professionals can count on Konica Minolta technology to meet their customers' strict standards for both colour and quality."

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 also provides advanced solutions and software applications for device administration, document management, forms and variable data, cost accounting, print production, and more.

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