IC-601 – Easy and affordable colour

As an own controller development, Konica Minolta’s IC-601 supports the high-speed digital colour presses of the bizhub PRESS and
PRO series. This embedded colour controller is the affordable alternative for entry-level colour production. It provides simple and
straightforward colour management, seamless compatibility with Konica Minolta’s advanced colour print engines, and extensive
integration with Konica Minolta’s workflow management applications.

Basics Highlights
The IC-601 embedded Konica Minolta controller com- JobCentro
bines high quality and excellent performance with As the IC-601’s central user interface, JobCentro dis-
attractive low cost. Promising seamless integration with plays different job lists, such as active jobs, jobs held
the latest generation of bizhub PRO and bizhub PRESS by the controller or the engine, and a job history. With
high-speed colour print engines, the IC-601 supports a similar GUI to that of the printer driver, JobCentro
the bizhub PRO C6000/C7000, the bizhub PRESS allows fast and easy editing of job tickets, whether this
C6000/C7000/P, and the bizhub PRESS C8000*. is done on the engine panel, remote panel or on the
Job Centro utility*. Editing of individual pages is facili-
An essential highlight of the embedded IC-601 is its full tated with drag & drop and a thumbnail view feature.
support for important Konica Minolta applications, such
as the PageScope and Printgroove series of compre- ColorCentro
hensive software utilities. The IC-601 allows configuring The Windows-compliant utility software ColorCentro
a professional Konica Minolta own end-to-end colour offers a convenient user interface to make and adjust
production solution that incorporates hardware, control- various colour settings. ColorCentro includes important
ler and software from once source. tools like calibration, tone curve adjustment and a spot
colour utility. It has to be installed on a separate PC
and connects to the IC-601 via the network.

Supported devices

Controller IC-601
IC-601, controller

Features
n Calibration – Preparation and management of calibra- n Profile management – Facilitates managing the ICC
tion tables. profiles saved in the controller, local PC or network. In
n Tone curve adjustment – Allows adjusting the curves addition the creation of new ICC profiles and editing
for any status and offers a before-and-after compari- of existing ICC profiles is possible.
son in the sample preview. n Colour default settings – This utility manages the
n Spot colour utility – Provides a library of spot col- default colour settings. These are applied to the print-
ours and their CMYK values. The library includes er driver’s default settings if a job is printed without a
PANTONE, TOYO, DIC and HKS colours; new colours specific colour configuration.
can also be defined. n Colour configuration – Manages and prepares the
n Alternative colours – Enables conversion of RGB/ profiles for specific paper types.
CMYK input values (graphics, text, objects) into the
specified CMYK values.

Job workflow

Printer driver Controller Engine

Holds job in
Holds job in engine Re-Prints
IC-601
controller bizhub PRESS C7000

Printer driver

HDD HDD

Specifications
Hardware File Formats Client Environments
n Adobe PostScript 3 n Windows® 7/2000/XP/Vista™
n Intel® Core2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz
n 4 GB high-speed memory n PCL 5c/6* n Windows® Server 2003/2008

n 2x 250 GB SATA disc space n Native PDF; PDF 1.7; PDF/X-1a, X-3 n Macintosh® OSX (10.4.x to 10.6.x)

n Ethernet (10/100/1,000-Base-T) n EPS

n TIFF, TIFF/IT; JPEG
n PPML

* Available soon
n The support and availability of the listed specifications and functionalities varies depending on operating systems, applications, network protocols as well as network and system configurations.

n Specifications and accessories are based on the information available at the time of printing and are subject to change without notice.

n Konica Minolta does not warrant that any prices or specifications mentioned will be error-free.

n Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks, of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

n All other brand and product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.
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