Konica Minolta bizhub C258 Review

Good: Upgraded touchscreen workflow, flexible paper handling, optional Fiery controller.
Bad: Document feeder is only optional.
Bottom Line: Konica Minolta's newest medium-sized color MFP that includes strong security, paper handling and other features.
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bizhub C258
$10,769
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Product Overview

The bizhub C258 is a new entry to Konica Minolta’s color MFP lineup.

Konica Minolta continues to improve its already strong color copier/MFP line with frequent upgrades, especially its touchscreen interface. The bizhub C258 is a good buy for a medium-sized office that needs color, multifunctionality and flexible paper handling.

It features Konica Minolta’s INFO-Palette Design control panel, which consists of a 9″ color screen that has a touch-and-swipe functionality commonly found on mobile devices. You can customize commonly used workflows right on the screen. The interface includes a new area for mobile connectivity, as well as an optional voice guidance system for hearing screen instructions. And a web browser is included as a standard feature, providing support for a wide variety of apps.

The C258 ($10,769) offers standard printing, copying and scanning with optional faxing. It prints and copies at 25ppm in both black and color. Its first-page-copy time is 7.5 seconds in color with a monthly duty cycle of 80,000 pages.

The device uses 4GB of memory and a 250GB hard disk drive. PostScript and PCL printing support are standard. USB and Ethernet are supported. Mobile printing (via AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and NFC) is standard.

More details are found in our Features section below.

Features

Paper handling: Paper handling starts with dual 500-sheet paper trays and a 150-sheet bypass. There are additional paper options, such as a 500-sheet tray, a dual 500-sheet tray set (letter size only), and a 3,000-sheet large-capacity tray. The maximum paper capacity is 6,650 sheets.

There are two optional document feeders that both have 100-sheet capacities. One is a reversing document feeder, and the other is a dual-scan document feeder (scans both sides of a page in a single pass). The dual-scan feeder scans up to 160ipm. The maximum paper size is 11″ x 17″. Duplexing is standard.

There’s a standard 250-sheet output tray. There are also a few finishing options. First, there’s a 50-sheet multiposition inner staple finisher with an optional 2/3-hole punch. Second, there’s another finisher with 50-sheet multiposition stapling; however, it has a capacity of 3,300 sheets. Third, there’s a booklet finisher that saddle stitches up to 20 booklets. There’s also a 30-sheet tri-fold option, as well as a job separator.

MFP functions: There’s a user box that allows users to store scanned documents on the hard drive. Users can create up to 1,000 user boxes that hold up to 3,000 documents total. The scanning function supports scan to email, USB, user box, FTP, SMB and WebDav. LDAP is also supported. Output file formats include JPEG, TIFF, PDF, compact PDF and XPS, to name a few.

The optional faxing uses a 33.6 kbps modem with JBIG compression. Color fax, IP fax and PC fax are standard.

There’s also an optional Fiery IC-416 image controller. It has a 2.9 GHz processor, 2GB of memory, and a 500 GB hard disk drive. Adobe PostScript, excellent workflow tools and color management tools are among its standard features. It also has other features that can add to productivity, like color profiles, hot folders and defined workflows. You can build on these features with imposition software and professional color-control software.

Security features: The C258 includes many security features, both standard and optional. Some of the features include hard disk encryption, optional hard disk mirroring, job encryption, watermark, IP filtering, secure print, secure fax, optional copy guard and IPv6 authentication. Konica Minolta also offers optional ID card authentication and biotmetric authentication.

  • Automatic Document Feeder?
  • Duplexing?
  • Ethernet Connectivity?
  • Wireless Connectivity?
  • Mobile Printing/Scanning?
  • Finishers?
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