Introduction
CRDs and 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.

Short specification
▫ Copy and print speed up to 55 ppm 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

Professional versatility and true productivity
With its unique combination of fast colour and b/w speed, 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. S.E.A.D. stands for „Screen-Enhancing Active Digital Process“ and 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 ITbit (Image Tag bit) technology much 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 without sacrificing a perfect black density.

More than just flexible colour production
The bizhub PRO C5501 delivers identical fast 55 colour and b/w prints per minute. Featuring Konica Minolta’s 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, incl. 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 (optional) that dries paper stock before it’s used, again 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 (option)
Online finishing capability: You can choose from a variety of bindings that suits your customer's needs:
▫ Stapling
▫ Offset-sorting
▫ Booklet
▫ Punching
▫ Letter-fold
▫ Saddle-stitching Continuous workflow for your convenience: No waiting, no delays
▫ Staple finishing

IC-408 - Internal EFI Print Controller
The work of creative professionals depends on printing environments which offer brillant colour quality, media flexbility and ease of use. The combination of bizhub PRO C5501 and the embedded IC-408 colour print controller serves exactly these goals. Konica Minolta’s 55-ppm colour production system and the EFI Fiery controller make a powerful team that achieves high productivity for all print jobs, ideal for advertising agencies and graphic arts departments.
The IC-408 colour print controller is comprehensively equipped to sail through the challenges of modern business applications. It applies competence to not only colour processing and productivity, but also provides an extensive range of security features.
Enhanced Security for administrators
More colour thanks to Fiery ColorWise®
Better productivity due to increased performance and logical workflows.
Attractive options:
▫ EFI Impose
▫ Auto Trapping
▫ Hot Folder and Virtual Printer
▫ Color Profiler
▫ Secure Erase