Konica Minolta · A3 Colour Multifunction Copier
Konica Minolta bizhub C451i
A workhorse A3 colour copier for busy offices — 45 pages a minute in colour and black & white, a 300-sheet dual-scan feeder, and printing from A6 up to SRA3 and 1.2 metre banners. Available to lease or buy from KM Direct Holdings, with sales, installation and service handled in-house across Gauteng and the Western Cape.
- 45/45 ppm A4
- A6–SRA3
- 300-sheet feeder
- 10.1" touch panel
- Embedded antivirus
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- Dealer of the YearKonica Minolta, 2024
- 1,000+ clientsSupported nationwide
- In-house techniciansWe service what we sell
- Lease or buyFlexible contract terms
Why offices choose the bizhub C451i
Konica Minolta’s i-Series platform — a smartphone-style interface, serious security, and running costs that hold up over a five-year contract.
Keeps up with a full floor
45 pages a minute in both colour and mono, first page out in 3.8 seconds, and a 300-sheet dual-scan feeder that captures both sides in one pass — so the queue at the machine clears instead of building up.
Built for POPIA-conscious offices
ISO 15408 Common Criteria certification, TLS 1.2/1.3, AES 256 drive encryption, secure print and user authentication as standard — with optional Bitdefender® real-time virus scanning on the device itself.
Cheaper to run, quietly
Simitri® V polymerised toner, a dynamic eco timer that learns your working hours, and ECO scan and print modes that skip warm-up. Small savings that add up across thousands of pages a month.
The machine
What the bizhub C451i does
Driverless direct print of PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, JPEG, TIFF, PS and PCL. A smart job queue skips jobs that can’t run — wrong paper size, say — instead of stalling everything behind them. One Universal Printer Driver across the whole fleet.
Scan
Up to 140 images per minute simplex, 280 duplex. Scan to email, SMB, FTP, SFTP, USB, WebDAV or a URL, with blank-page removal, scan preview and Scan-to-Me / Scan-to-Home pulled from Active Directory.
Copy, fax & finish
Corner and two-point stapling, two- and four-hole punching, half-fold, letterfold, booklet, Z-fold and offset sorting. Optional Super G3 fax with forwarding to email or an SMB folder instead of printing.
Print from anywhere, anytime
Straight from a phone or tablet — no cables, no workarounds.
bizhub C451i full specifications
| System speed A4 | Up to 45/45 ppm (mono/colour) |
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| System speed A3 | Up to 22/22 ppm (mono/colour) |
| Autoduplex speed A4 | Up to 45/45 ppm |
| First page out (A4) | 3.8 sec mono / 5.0 sec colour |
| Warm-up time | Approx. 12 sec mono / 13 sec colour |
| Imaging technology | Laser, Simitri® V polymerised toner |
| Control panel | 10.1" colour touchscreen, 1024 x 600 |
| Memory | 8,192 MB |
| Storage | 256 GB SSD standard, 1 TB SSD optional |
| Document feeder | Dual-scan, up to 300 originals, A6–A3, 35–210 g/m², double-feed detection standard |
| Paper sizes | A6–SRA3, custom sizes, banner up to 1,200 x 297 mm |
| Print resolution | 1,800 (equivalent) x 600 dpi; 1,200 x 1,200 dpi |
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| Page description languages | PCL 6 (XL3.0), PCL 5c, PostScript 3 (CPSI 3016), XPS |
| Interfaces | 10/100/1,000-Base-T Ethernet, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac (optional) |
| Network protocols | TCP/IP (IPv4/IPv6), SMB, LPD, IPP, SNMP, HTTP(S), Bonjour |
| Operating systems | Windows 10 and 11, Server 2016–2025, macOS 10.14 or later, Unix, Linux, Citrix |
| Mobile printing | AirPrint (iOS), Mopria (Android), Konica Minolta Mobile Print; optional Wi-Fi Direct |
| Optional print controller | Embedded Fiery IC-420 v2, Intel Celeron G4900T, 4 GB RAM / 500 GB |
| Scan speed | Up to 140/140 ipm simplex, 280/280 ipm duplex (mono/colour) |
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| Scan resolution | Up to 600 x 600 dpi |
| Scan destinations | Email, SMB, FTP, SFTP, Box, USB, WebDAV, DPWS, URL, TWAIN — 2,000 destinations plus 100 groups, LDAP supported |
| File formats | JPEG, TIFF, PDF, Compact PDF, Encrypted PDF, XPS, PPTX, PDF/A 1a and 1b; optional searchable PDF and DOCX/PPTX/XLSX |
| Copy resolution | 600 x 600 dpi, 256 gradations, 25–400% zoom |
| Fax | Super G3 (optional), analogue, i-Fax, colour i-Fax and IP-Fax, up to 33.6 Kbps |
| Finishing | Corner and two-point stapling, two- and four-hole punch, half-fold, letterfold, booklet, Z-fold, offset sorting, banner printing |
| Certification | ISO 15408 Common Criteria |
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| Network security | IP filtering and port blocking, TLS 1.2/1.3, IPsec, IEEE 802.1x |
| Data protection | Hard drive overwrite, AES 256 drive encryption, encrypted print data, secure print, confidential fax, end-of-life data erasure tool |
| Optional protection | Bitdefender® real-time antivirus scanning with on-screen status |
| User accounts | Up to 1,000, with Active Directory support |
| Authentication | Password, user name and password, ID card or finger-vein scanner |
| Document storage | Up to 3,000 documents or 10,000 pages in public, personal or group boxes |
bizhub C451i — common questions
How much does the Konica Minolta bizhub C451i cost in South Africa?
Pricing depends on your monthly print volume, the finishing options you need and whether you lease or buy outright. We quote both side by side so you can compare the total cost over the contract term. Send us your monthly page count and we’ll come back with a firm figure.
Can I lease the bizhub C451i instead of buying it?
Yes — most of our customers lease, with the machine, toner and servicing bundled into a single monthly cost. We’ll quote lease and purchase side by side so you can compare the total cost over the term rather than just the upfront number.
What monthly print volume is the bizhub C451i built for?
It suits medium to larger offices running substantial monthly volumes. If you’re printing less, the C301i or C361i cost less to run; if you’re printing considerably more, we’d point you at the C651i or a production machine. Tell us your monthly page count and we’ll recommend honestly rather than overselling.
Who services the copier after installation?
We do. KM Direct Holdings sells and services everything we supply, with our own technicians in Gauteng and the Western Cape backed by a nationwide network. The person who quotes you is accountable for the machine afterwards — there’s no hand-off to a separate service agent.
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Tell us your monthly print volume and we’ll come back with a lease or purchase price, including toner and service.
Still comparing? Download the full C451i brochure (PDF) — or call us and we’ll talk it through.
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