Konica Minolta unveiled their new color printer offering, the Konica Minolta bizhub C450P, that supports print sizes up to 12" x 18", offering high quality color printing at never-before speeds.

The bizhub C450P claims a print speed of 35ppm for color documents and 45ppm for B&W, making it the fastest full-color printer around. Some of the advanced finishing capabilities of this printer include saddle-stitch booklet making, folding, and two- and three-hole punching. Based on an IBM PowerPC 600MHz processor, it comes with 512 MB of printer memory, support for 10/100 Base-T and a maximum print resolution of 600x1800 dpi.

The bizhub C450P has a max monthly duty cycle of 125,000 impressions, which is great. You can store up to 3,400 sheets of paper. Bundled software includes Konica Minolta's PageScope suite allowing you to manage bizhub docs and devices through a central system, increasing efficiency. With the PageScope Net Care, you can get detailed information about the printer status on a network from your browser.

Document security is provided with HDD Overwrite (but you must shell out extra for the external 40gig hard drive) and Job Erase.

Priced at US $11,995, more info about the Konica Minolta bizhub C450P is available from Konica Minolta's website.