At a dedication ceremony today in the Graphic Communication Department at Cal Poly, Dr. Harvey Levenson, Martin Jones of Konica-Minolta, and Grant Berkefeld of Ultrex Business Systems of San Luis Obispo, California, celebrated the installation of a new Konica-Minolta digital press contributed to the department.
Harvey Levenson, Department Head of Graphic Communication at Cal Poly with Martin Jones of Konica-Minolta, and Grant Berkefeld of Ultrex Business Systems celebrate the new Konica-Minolta press at Cal Poly.
The BizHub is Konica-Minolta’s largest and finest digital press, providing toner-based printing with a complete range of binding components in an in-line system.
The system can print, fold, staple, saddle-stitch or perfect-bind and deliver complete documents in full color on a variety of paper stocks.
This is the bizhub C8000 from Konica-Minolta. Behind it are all the people affiliated with Konica-Minolta who attended the dedication. Some are dealers, some are distributors, and some are trainers from Konica-Minolta.
Attending the dedication ceremony today were representatives of Konica-Minolta and various distributors, dealers and trainers affiliated with the company. Also present were students of Cal Poly’s University Graphic Systems, a student-run printing enterprise as part of their baccalaureate program in Graphic Communication.
Cal Poly Graphic Communication students Ashlyn Aiu, Jenny Gonzales and David Messer hold posters commemorating the dedication of the Konica-Minolta digital press. Photo by Harvey Levenson.
The digital press will be used for classwork, production printing for the department, and for education in the field of digital printing technology. The machine is part of the school’s 33,000 square foot printing laboratories which include sheet-fed offset lithographic presses, flexographic printing machines, a newspaper press (featured in a blog last week), and other printing technologies.
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