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New Delhi: July, 2017: Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) and SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd. (SCREEN GA) have enhanced collaboration in the digital commercial printing area to achieve seamless hybrid workflows and increase user-friendliness in offset printing and digital printing. The two companies will further improve efficiency, expand business opportunities, and deliver new value in the commercial printing industry.
In the commercial printing industry, digital printing equipment is being increasingly introduced due to growing demand for high-mix small-lot printing to meet the diverse needs of consumers. In some cases, users cannot take full advantage of the equipment because the CTP workflow RIPs for offset printing – the core of workflow systems – cannot fully control the equipment.
Konica Minolta and SCREEN GA have enhanced data exchange in the Job Definition Format (JDF)*1 between the EQUIOS universal workflow*2 systems offered by SCREEN GA and the Accurio inkjet and toner digital presses offered by Konica Minolta. This enhanced data exchange enables users to directly perform digital printing from the EQUIOS, achieving seamless operation that encompasses color management and finishing. This solution increases commercial printing efficiency in a production environment and offers new business opportunities by taking full advantage of on-demand printing.
Konica Minolta has a competitive edge in variable digital presses, and aims to further open up the market in the digital commercial printing area. SCREEN GA offers an extensive lineup of high-speed variable digital presses and CTP systems, and has a competitive edge in integrated workflow systems combining CTP systems with digital presses to automate the printing process and eliminate the need for skilled users.
Sharing his delight on the collaboration, Yoshinori Koide, Marketing Head, PP Business Unit said, ”Our KMI IC-60x “controller” already connects SCREEN EQUIOS by using JDF/JMF. So CP customers can print via EQUIOS UI directly. To enhance this JDF connectivity continuously with SCREEN, KM has collaborated with Screen GA to promote seamless hybrid workflows. This will increase customer efficiency and make is user friendly. It enables the EQUIOS users (Commercial Printers (CP)), to directly change the Accurio’s printing settings such as colour, paper.”
Toshimitsu Taiko, Executive Officer, General Manager, Professional Print Business Headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc. said, “Konica Minolta aims to become a high-value-added solution provider by identifying customers’ issues, making proposals, and helping customers solve the issues. In the digital commercial printing area, Konica Minolta will take full advantage of its technologies and assets, including the Accurio series, through open collaboration with its partners to value innovation and value creation according to the business types and categories of its customers.”
Toru Kawada, Corporate Officer, Division Head, Business Development Division, SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd. said, “SCREEN GA has continuously improved the EQUIOS universal workflow systems that combine CTP workflow systems with cutting-edge inkjet printing technologies. To meet diversifying printing needs, SCREEN GA will promote automation of the printing process and offer a solution environment that creates customer value by using the EQUIOS as the solution platform or as the core system for efficiently using offset presses and digital presses.”
The two companies will enhance collaboration to further improve the value proposition for customers of the respective companies based on an open partner strategy through which each company further enhances its own competitive edge while utilizing the other’s technologies and assets.
About Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit: www.konicaminolta.in
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– Interface to Industry 4.0 planned
Euromap 63 specifically covers the exchange of order and status data between injection molding machines and host computers. It was defined in 2000 by the European Committee of Machinery Manufacturers. “Due to the technical developments and advances in recent years, an amendment is urgently needed. We are therefore working intensively on updating the recommendations. The successor to Euromap 63 will be Euromap 77”, explains task force leader Dr. Harald Weber, of the VDMA.
An important, new aspect of Euromap 77 will be an interface to Industry 4.0, the future project of the German Federal Government geared primarily towards promoting the computerization of production engineering. “Seamless communication all the way from the sensor to the Internet, for example, is a precondition for Industry 4.0. The goal is to define harmonized, new recommendations for data exchange in the Injection Molding Machinery segment. This offers great potential for the future”, adds Günther Grimm, Head of Software/Control Systems at KraussMaffei. The project will, it is expected, be supported by the Software Interface Standard OPC UA (Unified Architecture), which has been suggested as the basis by the working group. It provides for data exchange between all systems within a company and, thus, is a key requirement for data communication under Industry 4.0.
The result of the fourth workshop at KraussMaffei is a draft paper, which will now be submitted to European Euromap members for review and vote. The first international conference on Euromap 77 is scheduled for mid June.
The KraussMaffei product brand is internationally recognized for its groundbreaking, multitechnology system and process solutions for injection and reaction molding technology and factory automation. With its standalone, modular or standardized machinery and systems, and a wide, customizable service offering, KraussMaffei is a full-system partner for customers in many industry sectors. KraussMaffei bundles many decades of engineering expertise in plastics machinery and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information: www.kraussmaffei.com
The KraussMaffei Group is among the world’s leading suppliers of machinery and systems for producing and processing plastics and rubber. Its products and services cover the whole spectrum of injection and reaction molding and extrusion technology, giving the company a unique position in the industry. The KraussMaffei Group is innovation-powered, supplying its products, processes and services as standard or custom solutions which deliver sustained added value along the customer’s value-adding chain. The company markets it’s offering under the KraussMaffei, KraussMaffei Berstorff and Netstal brands to customers in the automotive, packaging, medical, construction, electrical, electronics and home appliance industries. Continuing a long tradition of engineering excellence, the international KraussMaffei Group currently employs around 4,000 people. With a global network of more than 30 subsidiaries and more than 10 production plants, supported by around 570 sales and service partners, the company is close to customers around the world. KraussMaffei has been headquartered in Munich since 1838. For more information: www.kraussmaffeigroup.com
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