Konica Minolta Bizhub 552

High-speed black & white output with all the trimmings.

When high-speed black & white multi-functionality teams up with extensive color scanning features and professional finishing versatility, most volume-intensive departments have found what they are looking for. Combining these important capabilities, the Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 offers the all-round answer to the diverse input and output requirements of many business fields, including order processing, logistics, controlling and others.

• The Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 combines fast and efficient color scanning capabilities with high b/w output speeds of 55 or 65 pages per minute and thus enhance existing output fleets with perfect high-volume b/w printing capabilities. But as true multi-functionals they naturally provide complete communication functionalities, and print, copy, scan and fax. Most importantly, the Konica Minolta Bizhub 552’s comprehensive capabilities ensure their seamless integration into almost any electronic workflow.
• Enhanced with Konica Minolta’s efficient and versatile software applications, both are ideal tools for efficient document capture and distribution, helping to save time and reducing overall costs. Same as the other devices in the Konica Minolta bizhub portfolio, the Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 adheres to the bizhub OP concept, feature Konica Minolta’s Universal Design, operation and feature set, and can be enhanced with extended applications and solutions
• Their professional finishing versatility makes the Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 ideal output devices for the creation of a wide variety of documents. Besides multi-position stapling of up to 100 sheets per set, their finishing capabilities include endless booklet production as well as various folding possibilities, 2- and 4-hole punching, and post insertion of pre-printed covers and sheets, for example in color.

Fast color scanning for efficient document processing

B/w and color scanning flexibility
Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 is perfect in- and output tools wherever a combination of productive color scanning and fast b/w printing and copying is required. As highly efficient and versatile scanners for up to A3 size they handle the considerable input requirements of document-intensive environments with ease and eliminate the need for separate scan stations altogether.

Both bizhubs scan up to 78 hard originals per minute in color as well as b/w. Their complete scanning functionality of scan to email (Home), FTP, SMB (Me), Box, USB, and TWAIN is standard; and with JPEG, TIFF, PDF, compact PDF, XPS and compact XPS, all relevant formats can be processed.

Applying OCR to scanned data allows creating searchable PDF documents. These provide a full text search capability and allow convenient copying of text from the PDF into other documents and applications.

Same as the other innovative products in the bizhub portfolio, the Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 features bEST, Konica Minolta’s bizhub Extended Solution Technology. bEST offers a gateway to extended document capturing and distribution capabilities that make these multi-functionals ideal input tools in high-volume environments. Thanks to bEST, the seamless connection to other applications as well as further processing is ensured.

Efficient capture and distribution
Document-intensive environments, e.g. logistics or order processing, depend upon efficient document capturing and distribution applications that fully integrate paper-based and electronic information. The digitization and indexing of incoming invoices with OCR and Zone OCR, the conversion to specific file formats like PDF/A, e.g. for verifiable archiving of documents that legally require safekeeping, and the direct document distribution to existing business applications are indispensable to these user groups.

Offering full panel integration of the related software, Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 is ideally suited to such tasks and do not require separate hardware. Document archiving processes can be started directly at the bizhub color touch screen panel, inputting all required information like document type and additional index fields during the scan process so that the scans need no further treatment in the PC.

Beyond this, an extensive range of optional connectors provides access to almost any imaginable back end application, including Document Management Systems, Enterprise Content Management Systems, Microsoft SharePoint, and more.

Thanks to their innovative technology paired with professional color scanning capabilities, Konica Minolta Bizhub 552 integrates fully into any company’s existing document management processes as easy-to-use document capturing solutions.