1. Canon imagePRESS C7010VP vs. Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000
Is Your Color Digital Press
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Canon imagePRESS C7010VP vs. Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000

2. Did you know …
… there is a common misconception that the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 is an 80ppm engine on all stocks?
imagePRESS C7010VP
up to 70ppm on all stocks (60 gsm to 325 gsm)
No weight limitation to auto duplexing
Bizhub PRESS C8000
up to 80ppm ONLY on common bond stocks and low weight text (80-135gsm)
Same throughput speed as imagePRESS C7010VP in commercial print sweet spot (136gsm to 300gsm)
57% slower than imagePRESS C7010VP on commercial print premium work (>300gsm)
Did you know that there is a common misconception that the KM BH C8000 is an 80 ppm engine. This chart reflects information in their own Customer Expectation document showing the speed by paper weight. As you can see, the C8000 is 80ppm only on common bond and low weight text stocks. It is the same speed as the C7010VP on higher weight texts and most cover weights, the sweet spot of media for commercial print. And it is only 40 ppm on stocks > than 300gsm and it cannot duplex over 300 gsm…these are premium stocks for commercial print – high revenue items. You can see from this chart, that the Canon imagePRESS C7010VP is always 70ppm no matter the media weight and can auto duplex all approved media weights.
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

3. Did you know …
… the Canon imagePRESS C7010VP Series was designed from the ground up for commercial print
Registration Spec +/-0.5mm
Fusing units engineered to allow paper temperature to adjust sufficiently to optimize the gloss of the toner to the surface of the paper
Air separation and suction feeding all trays – all medias, all trays
Auto duplex up to 325gsm
Did you know that the Canon imagePRESS C7010VP series was designed from the ground up for commercial print
It was engineered for quality output on large, coated media (bread and butter of commercial print).
This comes from a combination of design factors including a full size registration table and side guides , same as an offset press.
It provides better duplex accuracy because of a physical stop bar in the paper path vs. digital correction of competitors.
Canon pioneered dual fuser technology and the C7010VP is the second generation of it. The design and layout of the paper path and dual fuser units ensures proper and consistent gloss optimization. What does that mean, a matte look when you have a matte surface and gloss when you have gloss surface just like offset, not your typical EP technology gloss on everything look.
And as already noted, this design also ensures auto duplexing of all approved media weights. That’s right you can duplex 14pt media at full rated speed.
Air separation and suction feeding from all trays on all media, gives you flexibility in your production and maximizes the use of your media trays.
Engine and secondary fuser designed to effectively run large, coated media, no matter the grain direction

4. Did you know …
…the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 is really a souped –up color copier
Paper path designed for letter size sheets, so short grain is preferred for large sheets
Registration Spec +/- 1.0mm
2nd Fuser added to improve imaging on heavy media – path to tight to auto duplex >300gsm
Did you know that the KM C8000 is really a souped up color copier.
It is a modified C650 engine with a separate dual fuser slapped on the end. What does this really mean. It means it was designed to run letter size media, not large sheets. In fact, large sheets are not even fully in the registration path when it starts to register the media, meaning only half the sheet is actually registered and giving you copier level registration of +/- 1.0mm registration tolerance…double that of the imagePRESS. And let’s remember that is +/- 1mm in each direction on one side, not total offset, which takes into account both directions and is greater.
This very short paper path also means the engine prefers short grain media, which may not be the best for all applications and limits your media choices.
And this short paper path with tight turns means that although they claim they can run up to 350gsm, they cannot duplex over 300 gsm, so no 14 pt. post cards.
The secondary fuser is an add-on and KM is still working out the bugs. Why, the design and airflow in this section do not let the media cool enough to provide consistent gloss optimization. Meaning they cannot consistently match the toner look to the surface of the paper. In simple terms, matte may or may not be matte on all sheets. Additionally, due to issues with the main fuser not being able to maintain temperature properly they have a “speed down mode” ,yes again further slow downs on this engine. You need to put the engine in if you find the color on large solids to be inconsistent
Being a transformed color copier means they still have friction fed trays on the engine, that cannot use coated media. This further limits your production flexibility and essentially wastes capacity.
Design of 2nd fusing unit often over heats the paper, reducing the ability to give consistent gloss control
Friction feeding in engine trays – NO coated media = minimal use of 1500 sheets of capacity
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

5. “Dual Fusing” KM Fusing Stacked-up/ Over Heats
Runs media through only once.
Canon Fusing
Spaced Apart
Runs each side of media separately to ensure high quality output.
Temperature Control
Let’s just take a closer look at the dual fusing technologies of each engine:
KM C8000 fusers are stacked, running the media through once fusing both sides at once. There is also very limited air flow in this section due to the design. What does this mean, the media gets over heated and can’t cool off, providing inconsistent gloss control and making it prone to media wrinkling AND necessitating the “optional” post process “humidifier”.
The imagePRESS C7010VP provides space and air flow between its fusers, it also runs each side of the media separately. This combination of factors helps ensure high quality output with optimal gloss control. It also means the temperature of each fuser is maintained better. No additional humidifiers are necessary.
Dual Fusing seated on top of one another limits the control of temperature, which can cause over heating which in turn can damage the media and cause wrinkles in thin media stocks. Purchasing the additional humidifier at an additional cost would be the only solution.
Dual Fusing separately allows for better control of the temperature, gloss control and media handling. The Canon Airflow Enhancement technology also assists in maintaining the temperature of each fuser. No additional humidifier units are required to be purchased.
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

6. Did you know Canon…
… offers a larger printable image area on an imagePRESS C7010VP Series than on the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS 8000?
The printable image area is the defined area on a page that can be printed on the engine. Offering a larger area allows you in some cases to yield more finished product out of a press sheet.
Benefits
Meet deadlines in a shorter time frame
Produce a greater amount of revenue generating products
Decrease production time line and saves on total cost of operation
Let’s look at some other factors that are important in commercial print.
Did you know that Canon offers a larger printable image area on the imagePRESS C7010VP than available on the KM BH C8000?
The printable image area is the defined area on a page that can be printed on the engine. Offering a larger area allows you in some cases to yield more finished product out of a press sheet.
Why should you care?
If you can yield more from a larger sheet you can:
Meet deadlines in a shorter time frame
Produce a greater amount of revenue generating products
Decrease production time line and save on total cost of operation
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

7. Did you know the Canon …
… imagePRESS C7010VP Series registration tolerance is 2x better the Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 registration tolerance?
Printing business cards, postcards, and other applications that require cutting, both sides need to match up perfectly. The smaller the tolerance the less of a risk for errors, reprints or overruns.
Benefits
Reduced Cost of Operation
Reduced need for overruns
Save time and money with less reprints
Maximized use of large sheets
Registration spec that meets industry standard for offline finishing, helping ensuring sellable product after finishing
Faster turnaround time
Did you know that the Canon imagePRESS C7010VP Series has a registration tolerance that is 2x better the Konica Minolta bizhubPRESS C8000?
When printing business cards, postcards, and other applications that require cutting and trimming, both sides need to match up as perfectly as possible. The smaller the registration tolerance the less of a risk for errors, reprints or overruns.
Why should you care?
Improved registration helps
Reduce the Cost of Operation by
Reducing the need for overruns
Saves time and money with less reprints
And Maximizes the use of large sheets
Having a +/-0.5mm registration spec that meets industry standard for offline finishing, helps further ensure sellable product after finishing
And all this help lead to a faster turnaround time
Model
Registration
Tolerance
imagePRESS C7010VP/S
+/- 0.5mm
Bizhub PRESS C8000
+/-1mm
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

8. How does this apply to typical application…
6”x9” VDP Postcards
12 pt., 270 gsm C1S
150K Monthly Volume (Post Cards)
4/4 Full Bleed / Duplex
14pt, 315 gsm, C1S
KM C8000 cannot duplex >300 gsm
First class postage ($0.17) used to increase rate of return jeopardized by poor quality
Reverse opposite corner - 3mm
What does 1mm skew mean to your job?
To really show you what we are talking about, let’s look at a typical application:
6” x 9” postcards, 150k cards/month, duplex full-bleed. We were going to say 14pt, but since KM C8000 can’t duplex that we will make it 12 pt. (270gsm) so we can make it apples to apples.
Before I get into the differences in how you can run this on the imagePRESS vs KM, I just want to talk about registration and skew. Look at these images here. This is something we recently received in the mail. This was the front of the card, this is what a 1 mm skew looks like - very visible, and diminishes the impact of the card. This is the back of the same card, what you see here is the total offset of 3mm by the postage area. Our entire group received this card and all of them had these same issues.
This customer paid first class to ensure timely delivery and so the recipient would not think it was junk mail. With a well printed and finished card, the recipient notices the content, unfortunately, with shabby work, no matter the postage, they we will think junk mail because it ends up looking cheap/throw away. Direct mail can be a strong trigger for a marketing campaign, but it needs to have impact, work like this diminishes that.
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

9. How does this apply to typical application…
4-up on bizhub PRESS C8000
Smaller image area with +/-1mm registration tolerance leaves almost no room around the 1/8” bleed to ensure quality finishing
Bizhub PRESS C8000
Lead Edge
0.834 mm
Center
0.804 mm
Trail Edge
1.062 mm
Now let’s look at why we are taking the time to point this out to you. This image shows this application if we were to lay it out 4-up on a 13 x 19 sheet, which is what a commercial printer would do. In this image, the red line is the margins or non-imageable area (KM calls it the deletion area) the blue is your postcard and green represents the bleed. What you see down here on the imagePRESS is that you have plenty of space between the margins and between bleeds. What you see here on the KM is barely a 1mm between the margins and bleeds…now remember KM has a+/-1mm registration tolerance in each direction on one side. Not even looking at front to back registration, if their sheet to sheet is off by that much it is a really risk to run this job 4-up, it will cost you in waste and reruns. And no, I would not play with the bleeds with that registration spec. So your best option really is to run it 2-up on 11 x 17. (and before I go on, no 3-up does not work either 3 x 6.25 (card height plus bleed) is 18.75, leaving you .25”, a deletion area of 10mm is .4”, so you are out of space.)
4-up on imagePRESS C7010VP
Larger image area with +/- 0.5mm registration tolerance leaves plenty of room around the 1/8” bleed to help ensure quality finishing
imagePRESS C7010VP/S
Lead Edge
2.2mm
Center
3.3mm
Trail Edge
2.3mm
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

10. Results and why you should care…
Job
6”x9” VDP Postcards
12 pt., 270 gsm C1S
150K Monthly Volume (Post Cards)
4/4 Full Bleed / Duplex
Same application on KM C8000 needs to be done 2-up on 11x17
Takes longer to produce
Requires more paper and produces more waste
Properties
Canon
imagePRESS C7010VP
Konica Minolta
bizhubPRESS 8000
Why C7010VP
Paper Size
13 x 19
11 x 17
Optimized use of large sheet
N-Up 4 2
Bleed
1/8”
No playing with bleeds
Duplex Speed (Sheet)
Up to 16.5 ppm
Up to 17.9 ppm
There is more to productivity then just ppm
Post Cards/ Minute (at 70% Productivity)
46.3
25.6
More post cards/minute with large sheet
Hours to Produce
53.9
99.8
46% faster production
Sheets Required
37,500
75,000
50% less sheets of paper required with less waste
So if we take the results of running this 4-up on the image press and 2-up on the KM, what you see is Canon optimizes the use of the large sheet. You can see at this weight, the print speeds are fairly close, and KM is even a hair faster, but productivity is not solely ppm. Why, because as you can see with more on a large sheet, in this case we get 46 cards/ min vs there 25. This means we can produce all these cards in almost half the time (46 hrs vs about 100), and we use ½ as many sheets and generate less waste, since we have less trim area. If we want to talk potential financial gain (over all the savings you are already achieving). In the same time it takes the KM to produce 150K cards, we can produce an additional 127.6K. At $0.30/card, that is an additional $38K in revenue/month. That is how true productivity generates.
In same amount of time it takes the KM C8000 to produce this application, you could produce 127.6K more postcards on the imagePRESS C7010VP.
At $0.30/postcard, that is an additional $38K/month in potential revenue!
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

11. What are we saying… imagePRESS C7010VP Benefits
Better performance on large, coated media (bread and butter of commercial print)
The most offset like output - production designed dual fusing plus gloss optimization help ensure the gloss of the toner is consistently matched to the surface of the paper
Excellent registration and image placement ensuring high quality output
Flexible production – all media from all trays
Saves time with automated duplex production of heavy weight media (up to 325 gsm) – ideal for postcard mailers
So what are we saying to you?
We are saying the C7010VP provides you the following benefits vs. the KM C8000:
Better performance on large, coated media (bread and butter of commercial print)
The most offset like output - production designed dual fusing plus gloss optimization help ensure the gloss of the toner is consistently matched to the surface of the paper
Excellent registration and image placement
Flexible production – all media from all trays
Saves time with automated production of heavy weight duplex media (up to 325 gsm) – idea for postcards

12. Price/Value Comparison
Is your business worth more?
KM bizhub PRESS C8000
Save money up front AND limit your capabilities, offerings and revenue potential over the long term.
Canon imagePRESS C7010VP
Invest in a production engine AND expand your capabilities and your revenue potential!
Price/Value Comparison
KM bizhub PRESS C8000
imagePRESS C7010VP
MSRP - $185,840 (Engine, Paper Feed Unit with dehumidifier, Secondary Fuser, Humidification Unit, Relay/Buffer, Saddle finisher, Finisher)
MSRP - $214,305 (Engine, POD, Saddle Finisher)
Great performance for a color copier
Engineered for color commercial printing
Up to 80 ppm for bond
Up to 70 ppm for the common texts and light weight cover
Up to 40 ppm for the heavy weight cover stock
Up to 70 ppm on all medias – bond, text , cover from 60 gsm to 325 gsm
Auto duplex up to 300gsm
Auto duplex up to 325 gsm
+/-1mm registration tolerance
+/- 0.5mm registration tolerance and excellent image placement
Deletion area (non imageable area) is variable depending on media weight making it difficult to do all jobs cost effectively or makes you limit your offerings to your customer (ex. smaller post cards)
2.5mm margin all sides no matter the media, allows for most cost effective use of large sheets on all jobs
Let’s look at this in price value terms, because we are always told how much cheaper the KM is than the imagePRESS. So let’s see what you get for your money. MSRP listed here is for a typical configuration of engine with one paper deck and saddle finishing. First you can see from the KM configuration, to get what you get with the imagePRESS engine, there are a lot of add on pieces. Some mandatory and some optional (yet needed if you want a semblance of quality output) – Dual fuser is sold as separate mandatory item as is the relay/ buffer. Humidifier is optional (sort of ). Again this is a modified color copier, so you need to add on the extra pieces to try and get production like performance.
So KM is less expensive, and you get great performance for a COLOR COPIER. You get an engine that is 80ppm on bond paper, 70ppm on common texts and light weight cover, and simplex only, 40ppm on heavy weight medias such as 14pt. You get an engine is designed for letter sheets, so short grain is needed, limiting your paper options. And with that you get copier level registration tolerance of +/- 1 mm (again each direction, one-side, not total offset,) so this can seriously affect the quality of your duplex work, making you take more time and caution when producing N-up jobs. It has a smaller and variable image area (the deletion area varies with the weight of the medial, limiting your production flexibility and your ability to optimize the use of large sheets.
And what do you get with the imagePRESS and the additional investment. You get an engine engineered for the commercial print. Designed from the ground up for large, coated media. An engine that is 70ppm on all approved media weights and that can auto duplex even premium 14 pt. media. You get excellent registration tolerance and image placement ensuring quality output and easing concerns when doing n-up jobs going to off line trimming. You get a larger, consistent imageable area, further helping you optimize the use of large sheets. And being designed for large sheets, grain direction is not important, order what ever you prefer or is best for the job at hand.
So, you can save money up front with KM and limit your capabilities, offerings and your long term revenue potential. Or you can invest in a production engine, expand your capabilities and your long term revenue potential…The question is, is your business worth more?
Or ALTERNATE CLOSING
If you have the potential to gain $30K in extra revenue a month, the value of the extra investment is clear.
Actual prices set by dealer and may vary.
Source: Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 Specs from Customer Expectations Document dated 07/08/2011

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