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Getting correct color clicks from your bizhub or any color printer
Have you ever printed black and white and color pages from word and all of them 
come out as color clicks? Here is a simple way to handle this problem.
We occasionally receive calls from our customers that they have run a multiple page document from MS Word and are expecting it to click color pages as color, and black and white pages as black and white.
First off, many softwares deal with black and white as what is called “CMYK Black”. This is mixing all four colors to make black. When the copier receives this information from your computer program it then “clicks” you for a color page even though it looks black and white on your screen. This also applies to Adobe Indesign and many other programs. For example if you add a drop shadow to black and white text in Indesign it converts the page to CMYK Black.
Realize that there is nothing wrong with the machine. It will correctly “click” what it is sent to it. If your program sends CMYK Black you will be “clicked” for color as it has used all 4 colors to make your print.
How to solve this problem:
- Export your multi-page mixed document to a PDF Document from MS Word. Usually this is a “print to pdf” function in word.
- Open your exported PDF in Acrobat Pro. You can get your free trail by clicking here.
- Go to tools > production print > convert colors
- Select the page range which you would like to convert to black and white. Located at the bottom of the screen.
- Then towards the upper right side select under “Conversion Attributes” select the drop down “conversion profile” and select one of the gray gamma selections ( gray gamma 2).
- Click OK. It let you know that the conversion cannot be undone. Tell it to proceed.
- You can now print your document from Acrobat and it will click correctly on your bizhub or desktop color printer.
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Custom Label Printing – On Demand
High-Definition Digital Label Printer and Finishing System
Introducing Muratec Precision Label Series
Muratec’s Precision Label Series (Label Printer) gives manufacturers, marketers, private labelers and professional print shops the ability to produce high quality labels, on-demand. Muratec’s PLS-2112 Label Printer is a compact digital label system that can print continuous-fed media or cut sheets, up to 8.5″ widths, on a variety of media stocks. This system features a high-performance, easy-to-use Wasatch RIP that guides users step-by-step through job set-up and execution. Professional print shops and label converters benefit from Muratec’s PLS-2112 digital label system by taking on jobs that previously would not be feasible or profitable on a high-speed flexo press; pecifically, short-run jobs (fewer than 5,000 labels) that include variable data, sizes and colors. Businesses who rely on labels use Muratec’s PLS-2112 to bring label printing in-house and significantly reduce their label spend, waste and production time. Imagine, instead of waiting weeks to receive a label order, you can print, laminate, die-cut and have your labels ready for application in just hours. Muratec’s PLS-2112 digital printing system can also have a dramatic cash flow effect, not only by saving potentially thousands of dollars per year in reduced label costs, but also by freeing up cash typically absorbed by label inventory that may get discarded. The PLS-2112 gives you the ability to:
- Instantly give your logo, packaging and brand a completely new look.
- Print 500 labels, instead of 50,000, which frees up cash, reduces waste and eliminates an inventory nightmare.
- Print pre die-cut materials that are ready for immediate application, or, with the PLS-2112F digital finishing system, you can create unique, specialty die-cut labels without additional set-up charges or long lead times from your provider.
- Easily create labels for focus group prototype packaging, create an identity for sub-brands or third-party distributors, add die-cut corporate logos to promotional products and more.
Reduce Paper Jams with Proper Paper
THE HIGH COST OF LOW COST PAPER
There are many types of paper in the market place that you can choose from. Does buying the cheapest paper actually save you money in the long run? Many times cheaper quality (and cost) paper will cause more jams, more downtime, waste more paper and more employee labor than you save as compared to higher quality paper.
Every machine is designed with different factors in mind. These factors will influence what type of paper you can effectively use in your Konica Minolta machine. Konica Minolta publishes paper guides for each model with a list of tested brands that have been proven to work properly in your equipment.
Current Media Guide
OTHER HELPFUL TIPS
• DO NOT cut your own paper. It leaves burrs that cause jams and many times is not cut to the exact intended size.
• Ensure that your paper grain direction is going in the proper direction. This can make a huge difference in decreasing jams as well as the paper breaking while folding.
• DO NOT store your paper in an open package as this makes it far more susceptible to moisture and the elements. It can also get dusty as well as folded or bent. In addition, when you are getting paper that is curling when it exits the machine in most cases it is caused by damp paper or paper not made to run in your machine.
• Make sure you have selected the proper paper weight settings for the thickness of your paper on your machine. This is a very common reason for jams that we find when servicing copiers.
• Make sure that you are not running too heavy of paper that is outside the specs of your particular machine.
• If you must feed thick paper or thin paper, use the paper path the has the least amount of turns. Many times this will be the bypass tray or the manual paper tray on the right side of the machine.
So save yourself some money and time and purchase quality approved paper for you Konica Minolta Copier.
If you have any questions about this you can contact your service technician at (209) 952-2677 or [email protected]
Scan to Dropbox or Google Drive from your Bizhub
There are a number of ways to scan to Dropbox or Google drive from your bizhub. We will cover 2 of them in this article. Once this is set-up you can walk up to your bizhub, press 1 button, and scan to your Dropbox or Google Drive cloud folder.
Method #1
1. Download the Google Drive or DropBox desktop application to your computer.
2. Once you have your Google Drive or DropBox folder on your desktop of your PC or Mac, make sure it is a shared folder on your network.
3. Follow the simple instructions to set-up scanning to folder from your bizhub.
4. Ensure you select the DropBox or Google Drive as the folder that you want to scan to.
5. Once set-up anything you scan to this folder will automatically be sync’d to your cloud account for either service.
Method #2
Method #2 requires the use of Dispatcher Phoenix (Konica Minolta Software)
1. Install Dispatcher Phoenix on your company server.
2. Use the customer workflow designer to create a document processing service to scan and convert to word. In addition, this will allow you directly connect to a DropBox or Google Drive account.
3. This software is, in many cases, the same cost as the upgraded kits in Method #1. However with this there are MANY more options that you receive with a ton of document workflows that you can customize.
See the demonstration below: