Since 1999, Konica Minolta has participated in the production printing business by launching 7075 and its successor, 7085. In the market, customers' demands have been increasing such as for meeting an individual workflow, for applying various print media, for robustness and productivity against high-volume printout. Development of a strong product has been expected for matching these demands.Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 1050/1050P system, released in 2004, is a newly designed model, which is exclusively arranged for the production printing to meet the demands in the market. In this paper, several advantages of this product are discussed such as a large capacity sheet input/output system, a high-volume toner feeding system, high-quality printout including precious two sides image registration accuracy and improvement of multi-task processing capacity. Further, a professional finishing system is introduced, which can flexibly conform to various output forms including multiple folding, punching, side stitching, saddle stitching, front trimming and so on.
Akihiro Owada, "Konica Minolta's Production Printing System" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP21), 2005, pp 675 - 678, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2005.21.1.art00088_2