The printing revolution: UV Inkjet printing

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The AccurioJet KM-1e gives you the flexibility to print on almost any substrate – from heavy textured stock, folding carton, through to never tear expanding your application list and market potential.

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Fogra 53 certification

Konica Minolta has become the world’s first press manufacturer and global solutions provider to achieve the ‘robust’ Fogra 53 profile certification – another reason to celebrate for its growing family of AccurioJet KM-1 users.

Totem.com.pl: Book production with KM-1

Having previously outsourced book cover production, with the AccurioJet KM-1 the whole process can be managed in-house which enables Totem.com.pl to offer a real print on demand service, the company benefits from offset-like quality production and lower costs as well as the ability to print on standard offset media as well as cardboard, metallic grades and plastics that allows to support publisher creativity

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As the print and communications market continues to change, understanding how this will affect your production processes is paramount. You know your business and your clients; our dedicated team of inkjet consultants advise you on what opportunities exist that can create new innovation and wealth.

Saving money

Analyse which production process is best for your client’s job
Avoid purchasing expensive digital paper stock
Gang jobs up on a larger sheet format
Reduce production time and costs – digital UV inkjet prints can be instantly finished, need no curing or drying time
Reduce wastage

Increasing profit

Increase the range of applications you offer your clients: Digital UV inkjet has a wide media latitude capable of printing on thin substrates, textured media and heavy board stock for applications such as personalised folding cartons for packaging
Automate processes to enable your customers to submit jobs directly into the production workflow
Develop new digital marketing solutions such as augmented reality to unlock profitable print opportunities

Having defined potential new opportunities together with you, we continue to advise you on what is practical, cost-effective and most urgent supporting the B2+ inkjet business case for changing your production methods.

We will help you assess which of your clients could benefit from B2+ inkjet, analysing the type of application, media type, and production costs, as well as new applications that you can create.

Traditional offset versus UV Inkjet

As run lengths continue to drop while the number of jobs is increasing, it’s essential for you to know which device or technology to use to produce your clients’ print products and maintain profitability at the same time. Our dedicated teams carry out this assessment and provide you with an accurate analysis you can use to evaluate your return on investment.

Application development

Creating innovations in print can be hard when you are managing the daily needs of your business. How do you inspire innovation to create new ideas? We assess and advise in numerous ways – from innovation workshops helping you decide which ideas can be turned into useable offerings, to media testing to evaluate new substrates and media.

Konica Minolta has invested in support teams that work with you to help maximise your return on investment. Each stage of the implementation process is carefully mapped out so that you always know which team will be looking after you. Each customer will be supplied with a plan which will clearly show the steps needed and a return on investment.

Our teams consist of highly skilled individuals with industry experience in:

Workflow
Colour management
Business strategy and marketing
Application development
Strategy
Finishing
Packaging

Hundreds of customers know that our dedication focuses not just on successful projects but also on achieving long-term gains for our clients.

This is why we continue to work with you during and after implementation so that you can keep benefitting from our knowledge, expertise and innovation. To ensure and ease your smooth adaptation to changing market conditions, our team of business consultants will continue to support your investment, suggesting new ideas and regular innovation. We will periodically offer you the option to review your situation, and to participate in workshops and programmes that are designed to help you grow your business:

Sales Training
Business Planning
Marketing Planning
Growing profitable print volume
Value creation
New Marketing Services

Success story

Rehms Druck makes uv inkjet the reality

Rehms Druck, of Borken, Westphalia, in north west Germany, has been a loyal Konica Minolta customer for many years using its toner-based system. However, the company realised in 2016, at drupa, that the time was right to invest in cut-sheet UV inkjet technology and, specifi cally, the AccurioJet KM-1. Employing 110 staff and with a turnover of €18.5 million, Rehms Druck wanted a production system to enable it to grow into new markets. It wanted one digital inkjet technology in a team partnership approach using world-class expertise.

Key business drivers for investment

Before making the decision to invest, Rehms Druck set out a challenge for Konica Minolta to print a range of applications and to prove the ROI of moving to UV inkjet. The AccurioJet KM-1 team produced a range of applications that included direct mail and packaging. Various factors were compared to existing print processes, including:

Colour consistency over a long run
Media handling and flexibility
Job turnaround
Variable data handling
Workflow integration with Rehms Druck’s existence Kodak Prinergy system

Print quality had to match Rehms Druck’s extremely high standards, and those demanded by customers. Rehms Druck also set out a challenge that the break-even point had to be low enough to move jobs from off set to the Konica Minolta AccurioJet KM-1 to allow them not only to save money but also increase their ability to turn jobs around quicker. Another a key factor was to reduce the lead time customers waited for work to be printed and shipped.

This would enable the company then to split work to prioritise the longer run lengths on off set, with the new UV inkjet press producing lots of small jobs improving their customers’ experience and at the same time increasing Rehms Druck profitability. A key saving was the ability to use the same media the off set presses were using on the new inkjet system.

This enabled the maximisation of purchasing power with paper merchants through the highly accurate colour capabilities of KM-1 to print and match their clients’ corporate colours. The result was not only increased efficiency, but jobs were proving to be highly profitable. Rehms Druck also wanted to grow business opportunities in new markets and innovate its print offering to existing and new clients with the ability to print on a wide range of new media, including plastics.

Rehms Druck - From traditional offset to digital inkjet with AccurioJet KM-1

The Germany-based print provider Rehms Druck has a history of being a traditional offset printing company. They decided to invest in Konica Minolta's digital inkjet press AccurioJet KM-1, in order to fulfill their customers' demands for short print-runs and production times, while keeping the ability to print on different substrates as well as producing highest print quality.

“Even a few years ago our management was open to exploring digital technology,” said Alexander Brand, Rehms Druck’s Assistant to the Managing Director and Project Leader. “We have been watching the development of UV inkjet very closely, as well as water-based. But we felt that water-based technology only addressed a certain amount of applications that we produce. Now the print quality for digital is there and we haven’t looked back.

The key benefi t is not only printing on all types of paper media, coated and non-coated, but it matched off set quality – this was criteria for our business. I can say without reservation that the AccurioJet KM-1 is a highly flexible, adaptable platform that has opened up a new huge world of opportunity for Rehms Druck.”

Konica Minolta solution

In addition to quality and performance advantages in the AccurioJet KM-1 B2 inkjet press, central to the decision to invest was the provision of support services from Konica Minolta. These included market planning, application development and insight, and on-site training. The solution required a business partner and one proven technology capable of printing packaging as well as commercial work. The ideal job on the KM-1 according to Rehms Druck is brochure work and manuals, but the company is also exploring different kinds of media to run on with the Konica Minolta B2 inkjet press.

Key benefits

Patented technology that helps the Konica Minolta AccurioJet to “freeze” the inkjet drop, allowing for perfect registration of colours and image stability. The flexibility includes a unique ability to duplex (perfect) prints that come off the press and go straight to finishing.
Wide range of media handling on uncoated and coated substrates from 0.06mm to 0.6mm. This means standard offset stocks can be used without pre-treatment.
New markets have opened up because of the ability for UV inkjet to print on plastics, for point of sale, labels, loyalty and pre-paid mobile, gift vouchers and packaging on specialist medias.
Other new opportunities now being developed involve using pre-foiled paper for gold, silver and magnetic applications.
Super-fast turnaround and using different cuts has also created opportunities in B2C markets through Rehms Druck’s online shop offering.

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