Eric Boucher
Well-known member
Hi,
Making progress in our selection process so I thought I'd share our experience...
We narrowed down our selection to 2 Konica machines : the high chroma C83HC or the standard C3080. We were concerned that the C83HC wouldn't be able to print a regular CMYK job accurately so I had Konica print some color patches. It turns out the C83HC cannot print a regular CMYK job accurately... Sadly. It seems to be a great machine and the "saturated" mode prints out really vibrant colors. But in standard CMYK mode, the blues and reds didn't really come out very well... A 100% Cyan patch came out a little "dull" and a 100% Magenta/100% yellow patch came out a bit orangey, definitely not red. Not very far off, but definitely not as good as the prints on the C3080. I'd probably get both machines if we had the volume...
So we are getting the C3080 with 2 PF-707 high capacity feeders, RU-518 decurling unit, IQ-501 and standard OT-510 receiving unit.
Last thing to decide is the controller : IC-313 Fiery or IC-605 Konica Hikari RIP with AccurioFlux Premium software. Either option come at around the same price...
I welcome any advice in that regard! We don't use impose or any fancy finishing options. We do use virtual printers and standard Fiery options but that's about it. I'm just looking for print quality and ease of use.
Thanks!
Making progress in our selection process so I thought I'd share our experience...
We narrowed down our selection to 2 Konica machines : the high chroma C83HC or the standard C3080. We were concerned that the C83HC wouldn't be able to print a regular CMYK job accurately so I had Konica print some color patches. It turns out the C83HC cannot print a regular CMYK job accurately... Sadly. It seems to be a great machine and the "saturated" mode prints out really vibrant colors. But in standard CMYK mode, the blues and reds didn't really come out very well... A 100% Cyan patch came out a little "dull" and a 100% Magenta/100% yellow patch came out a bit orangey, definitely not red. Not very far off, but definitely not as good as the prints on the C3080. I'd probably get both machines if we had the volume...
So we are getting the C3080 with 2 PF-707 high capacity feeders, RU-518 decurling unit, IQ-501 and standard OT-510 receiving unit.
Last thing to decide is the controller : IC-313 Fiery or IC-605 Konica Hikari RIP with AccurioFlux Premium software. Either option come at around the same price...
I welcome any advice in that regard! We don't use impose or any fancy finishing options. We do use virtual printers and standard Fiery options but that's about it. I'm just looking for print quality and ease of use.
Thanks!