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Overview

Print providers need to react quickly and flexibly to their customers’ varied requirements. To satisfy even the most discerning demands these user groups look for a superior image quality and a fast production speed in both colour and black & white as well as a competitive cost/performance ratio that will protect their margins. With the bizhub PRO C5501 Konica Minolta has introduced a digital colour production system that meets all these challenges.

Professional versatility and true productivity

With its unique combination of fast colour and black and white, extensive media flexibility, superior image quality and high durability the bizhub PRO C5501 helps reduce the pressure in busy print rooms. An impressive range of features and functionalities increases user convenience and facilitates the fast processing of jobs. Offering sustainable, reasonable running costs Konica Minolta’s highly dependable colour production system ensures competitiveness for CRDs and print providers that strive to produce perfect, high-quality results but need to protect their margins.

Tomorrow’s colour technology for today

• Konica Minolta’s advanced colour processing technology is an integral part of the bizhub PRO C5501. Screen-Enhancing Active Digital Process makes available a range of technical innovations for impressive colour reproduction capabilities at its high speed.
• The system’s improved image quality with considerably smoother backgrounds is achieved with a newly applied unique screening method.
• Konica Minolta’s Image Tag bit technology enhances halftone printing, showing visible improvements in particular for outlines, reversed and slim text.
• Konica Minolta’s Simitri HD® (High Definition) polymerised toner takes image quality to new heights: Its minuscule but uniform particle size allows the precise reproduction of even the finest lines while maintaining perfect black density.

More than just flexible colour production

• The bizhub PRO C5501 delivers identical fast 55 colour and black and white impressions per minute through advanced colour processing technology.
• Paper processing in the bizhub PRO C5501 is fast and ultra-smooth. Thanks to Konica Minolta’s “airassist” paper feeding technology its media flexibility is extensive and covers a wide range of substrates, including up to 300 gsm paper, coated paper, card and digital offset stock.
• Additionally the optional large-capacity paper magazine can be equipped with a heating unit dries paper stock before it’s used, further increasing the system’s feeding reliability.
• Its sturdy, metal construction ensures absolute dependability while the compact design facilitates its integration in locations where space is limited.
• The bizhub PRO C5501‘s back-to-front and page-to-page registration ensures a degree of precision that comes very close to offset printing results.
• One of the bizhub PRO C5501’s many attractive assets is its high degree of user convenience. Fast and easy handling and no-nonsense operation were top development priorities for Konica Minolta’s colour production system.

Flexible Finishing *

Inline finishing capability: You can choose from a variety of bindings to suit your customer's needs:

• Stapling
• Offset-sorting
• Booklet
• Punching
• Letter-fold
• Saddle-stitching Continuous workflow for your convenience: No waiting, no delays
• Staple finishing

*optional

Interactive brochure

Launch the bizhub C5501 PROfessional interactive brochure

Specifications

Short specification

• Copy and print speed up to 55 ipm A4 (colour and monochrome)
• Paper formats: A5 –SRA3
  100 x 148 mm to 330 x 487 mm
• Paper weight: 64 – 300 g/m²
• Paper input capacity: Standard: up to 1,750 sheets
  With optional cassette: up to 4,250 sheets
• Finishing (with options): Document feeder, Large capacity cassette, Booklet finisher, Staple finisher and Punch Kit