MINOLTA FORMALIZES BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH KIP AMERICA
Partnership expands versatility of Minolta's Digital Microform Scanners.
Minolta will sell and market the KIP America Starprint 2000 Series of large format printers.
KIP America's Starprint 2000 Series Printers work seamlessly with Minolta's MS7000 Digital Microfilm Scanner.
When paired together, Minolta and KIP America provide customers with quick, convenient access to microfilm drawing archives for prints, scans and digital distribution.
Users can scan, print or browse up to 150 aperture cards using the optional ACF-7 aperture card feeder.
Works with more than 20 print sizes, including architectural and engineering (A-E) sizes, metric sizes, letter, legal and tabloid sizes.
Users can print directly to Starprint 2000 Series printers from existing CAD programs or systems.
RAMSEY, NJ -- August 4, 2003 -- Having reached a formal agreement with KIP America, Minolta Corporation's Business Products Group announced it will directly market and sell the Starprint 2000 Series of large format printers in conjunction with its MS7000 Digital Microform Scanner.
"Minolta is focused on finding ways we can solve our customers' document-based problems," said Bud Murphy, executive vice president and general manager, Minolta's Business Products Group. "Our MS7000 microfilm scanner is widely used to view large format drawings that have been stored on aperture cards. Until now, however, there was no way to print these oversized drawings after viewing them on the scanner. Our partnership with KIP America makes strategic sense because it solves this problem and allows Minolta to offer customers a productive and economical, end-to-end scan, view and print system for large format documents."
"We chose to partner with KIP America because their large-format printers are a perfect match for the automated scanning capabilities of Minolta's MS7000 scanner and because they produce outstanding prints," says Murphy.
Most large format documents have tiny details that must be reproduced with the utmost clarity. The Starprint 2000 printers use High-Definition Print (HDP) technology, direct-contact toner and calibrated LED heads to provide the image quality required by these documents.
The Starprint 2000 Series Printers have been tested to work seamlessly with Minolta's MS7000. Once the document is viewed on the MS7000, it can be digitally enhanced and easily printed on a Starprint 2000 Printer, or scanned and sent via e-mail, or faxed from a PC to save on mail or courier costs.
The MS7000 and KIP America printer solution is especially valuable to companies that have archives of microfilmed drawings on aperture cards. These documents typically include engineering, maintenance and manufacturing drawings, as well as deeds and public works documents. Using Minolta's optional Aperture Card Feeder, up 150 such documents can be quickly and automatically scanned.
MS7000 Digital Microform Scanners
The MS7000 makes it easier to read, scan and print to a PC when using microfilm. The MS7000 supports a wide range of microform media options for film, fiche, jacket and card formats. With standard dual output, users can switch from PC scanning to laser printing at the touch of a button. High resolution PC scanning at up to 800 dpi lets customers use and distribute microform information via websites, e-mails, faxes, and desktop publishing. The MS7000 has two output channels -- one for high-speed laser printing and the other for scanning to a PC. In addition, a motorized image rotation and de-skew feature is standard on both scanners.
KIP America
KIP America is the North American subsidiary of Katsuragawa Electric Co., LTD, one of the reprographic industry's innovators in digital scanning and printing systems. For over 30 years, Katsuragawa has been on the leading edge of reprographic technology; producing scanning and printing solutions. KIP America has over 30 modular wide-format products, with printers ranging from 3 to 22 'D' size prints per minute and scanning systems ranging from 1.6 to 25.6 inches per second.
For more information about KIP America, its products and services, visit www.kipamerica.com.
Minolta Corporation
For over 70 years, Minolta has applied its talents and resources to create products and services that are essential to the world of imaging. These efforts concentrate on the most important aspects of imaging: the quality of the images, the tools and methods for creating images, and the creation of environments for the application of images. This focus on the essentials of imaging ties together Minolta's key business and consumer product lines: digital monochrome and color printer/copiers, multifunction peripherals, desktop laser printers, cameras, binoculars, optical instruments, software and advanced imaging and sensing technologies.
Minolta Corporation, headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey, is the largest wholly owned subsidiary of Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan. The company's Business Products Group markets and supports office equipment and systems, addressing the ever changing needs of businesses and organizations by providing innovative products for the capture, output and management of images.
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