AccurioLabel 400 receives 2022 Good Design Award

Sponsored by the Japanese Institute of Design Promotion, the annual Good Design Award highlights products and facilities that feature excellent design, with each award determined by a comprehensive evaluation. 

As one judge noted, the AccurioLabel 400 ‘is a wonderful product with excellent accessibility that does not require specialized skills by automating operations. I would like to express my respect for the company’s stance of continuing to evolve to greatly change the range of expression by achieving white printing while keeping down the price of the equipment.’

Significant new benefits include expanding applications with white toner, extending creative label design and job opportunities for customers to grow their businesses. The AccurioLabel 400 digital press runs with print speeds of up to 130 ft/min to improve productivity and offers cost reductions due to more durable parts life.

‘We’re extremely pleased to offer these new levels of quality and speed with the consistent results our clients expect from Konica Minolta,’ said Dino Pagliarello, senior vice president of product management and planning at Konica Minolta. ‘The AccurioLabel 400 provides an ideal opportunity to help our customers build new profit streams and grow their businesses, further proof that we’re committed to enabling digital transformation for the labeling and packaging markets and securing a bright future for print.’

The new press features Konica Minolta’s Intelligent Quality Optimizer, the IQ-520, increasing usability and automation, with label production benefiting from higher levels of control. Automation allows for real-time control of white toner opacity, color stability control, automatic calibration, density adjustments and profile creation. Touch-panel monitors in three different areas of the label press enable intuitive operation, eliminating the need for extensive user training.

‘We’re very proud to be recognized for the design of the new AccurioLabel 400 digital label press that we recently added to our portfolio of Industrial Print solutions,’ added Bill Troxil, president of industrial print and production print business at Konica Minolta.

The AccurioLabel 400 was first showcased in the US during Labelexpo Americas in September. It will be officially available in the spring of 2023 in 4- and 5-color options.