India, April 05,2022: Konica Minolta today announced the appointment of Katsuhisa (Kurt) Asari as the new Managing Director taking over the baton from Tai Nizawa. Tai Nizawa will transition to Konica Minolta Asia as the Managing Director to oversee the expansion of the brand’s portfolio across 14 markets from Singapore.

Kurt Asari has been associated with Konica Minolta India since 2018 as General Manager of Business Planning. In his new role, Kurt Asari will drive Konica Minolta’s business and technology strategy to further the company’s digital transformation (DX) initiatives, strategic partnerships, and business growth to ensure shareholder value.

A Konica Minolta veteran, Kurt Asari started his career with this company in 1998. In his 25 years of experience, he has worn multiple hats in the field of sales, marketing, strategic planning and business development in North/Central Americas and Middle East. This journey also includes his 13-year international stint before he joined India in 2018.

We are fully committed to the Indian market, and looking forward to building on Konica Minolta’s track record of success through the expansion of our core business. I envision continuing our current strategies to expand Konica Minolta’s presence in professional printing, managed services and digital solutions domains while gaining share in the core MFP business, Kurt Asari said.

Konica Minolta India has cemented its stance as a company that cares about its employees, customers, and the community, and one that’s deeply committed to ethical leadership and creating societal value.

Kurt Asari added, “We have great talents and customer first DNA in the company. We will continue to service our customers with the same customer-centric experiences they expect from Konica Minolta, while driving digital transformation to serve them better and more seamlessly.

About Konica Minolta India

We are Konica Minolta Business Solutions India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. With its expertise in imaging, data processing and data-based decision making, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers and solves issues faced by society.

As a digital workplace solution provider, Konica Minolta helps its clients to identify and unlock the potential digitalisation to help companies reach the next level in the digital maturity of their organisation by rethinking the workplace. With its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Konica Minolta has pledged to consistently pursue its sustainability and social responsibility goals. The company has been repeatedly recognized for its rich history of social contribution as well as for working towards achieving the SDGs throughout its business and is listed among “2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World”, also having received the highest level in EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings.

Worldwide, the company has over 43,000 employees and is operating in over 150 countries.

To know more please visit: www.konicaminolta.in

Konica Minolta launches new AccurioPress C7100/C7090

India, 9 March,2022: Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leader in world-class printing technology, is pleased to introduce the AccurioPress C7100 series, digital color presses packed with innovative technologies to create more profitable business opportunities. From intelligent automation and enhanced finishing to flawless quality, advanced capabilities and exceptional durability, customers have the power to grow their businesses through a press that works smarter.

Succeeding the highly successful AccurioPress C6100 Series, the new AccurioPress C7100 model runs at 100 pages per minute (ppm) with the AccurioPress C7090 at 90ppm. With a focus on optimizing performance, offering new and advanced print products, and growing the entire business, the AccurioPress C7100 series serves more customers and completes more jobs with innovative technologies that power success.

Key to the development of the AccurioPress C7100 and AccurioPress C7090 was building a press that works smarter, not harder, with new technologies geared to provide stability, reliability and productivity to make businesses more profitable,” said Tai Nizawa, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India. “These new models bring the agility that print service providers have come to expect from Konica Minolta, and serve our mission to support our clients’ transformation with opportunities for new revenue sources.

Flawless Quality

Konica Minolta’s latest Simitri V toner is eco-friendly and formulated for performance. Fast melting, energy efficient and low maintenance, it reproduces superb quality on a wider range of media up to 400 g/m2. Combined with an output resolution of 3,600 dpi equivalent x 2,400 dpi, outstanding results are achieved from even the longest print runs.

Advanced Capabilities

With auto-duplex banners up to 900mm and the flexibility to handle embossed and textured media, handling of the machines is so simple that the most complex projects can be run by a single operator For e.g. 4up A4 brochures etc.

Intelligent Automation

By instantly detecting the precise stock being used, the optional Intelligent Media Sensor IM-101 significantly reduces production time. At the same time, the optional IQ-501 Intelligent Quality Care Unit ensures perfectly consistent color quality and front-to-back registration on every print in real time.  With no recalibrations or inspections mid-run, users benefit from printing image data now directly comparable with scanning data from IQ-501 with real time variable data print (VDP) inspection. It can be inspected for changes in text and images with real time color and registration adjustment.

Enhanced Finishing

As with the entire AccurioPress portfolio, a wide range of finishing and other functions are offered, in addition to booklet-making, stapling, perfect binding and wire binding. Konica Minolta’s TU-510, the world’s first inline cutting finisher, successfully introduced with the AccurioPress C14000 high-volume production printer, is available for the AccurioPress C7100 Series. The TU-510 is a four-edge trimmer and creaser that allows full-bleed finishing support for long sheets, booklets, catalogues, and dedicated business card cutting options.

Exceptional Durability

Reliability drives profitability. Among the new technologies built into the engine are a more durable lubricated drum, double corona wires with automatic cleaning, an optimized paper transport solution and a double swing registration system for improved paper compatibility and feeding accuracy.

The AccurioPress C7100 Series is designed to support a highly responsive print environment where customers rethink agility and offers a choice of different controller front ends from EFI, CREO and Konica Minolta’s own offering to perfectly match customer requirements.

Helping customers to expand and streamline businesses

These new models support Konica Minolta’s mission to assist with the transformation of its clients’ companies by sector and industry, predicting potential challenges and creating solutions together. The devices make a powerful impression, with many simply efficient capabilities, ultimately helping customers to expand and streamline their business.

To learn more about the AccurioPress C7100, please visit Konica Minolta online.

About Konica Minolta India

We are part of Konica Minolta, Inc. a premier Japanese multinational corporation,with a market legacy of almost 150 years and a worldwide presence spanning over 150 international markets. We are specialised in the field of enterprise printing solutions and Enterprise Content Management space. We have been directly present in India for the past 11 years, catering to a wide range of printing & document solutions requirement for the Indian corporate customers.

Konica Minolta is a pioneer and leader in the field of imaging technologies and has continued investing in innovation for such diverse fields as Advanced Monitoring, Digital Manufacturing and Smart Workplaces, so we are well poised to usher in the AI / IoT inspired transition to cyber-physical systems that is heralding the industry 4.0 era, and likewise are also working in the Analytics and Deep Learning for the Society 5.0 transformation.

We offer Intelligent Connected Workplace (ICW) Services to our customer by which we bring efficiency in the utilisation of the print resources while managing the complexity arising from a multitude of user requirements, with the end result being not merely a reduction in the print costs but also an increase in user productivity with enhanced security and sustainability benefits. In essence, our ICW offering helps our customers to MINIMISE ALL Complexities / Costs / Environmental Impact and MAXIMISE ALL Resources Utilisation / Productivity / Security.

To know more please visit: www.konicaminolta.in

India, August 23, 2021: Konica Minolta has recently celebrated its 11th Anniversary by hosting a tree plantation drive in association with SankalpTaru. As a part of this initiative, it has successfully planted 100 trees in the NCR region while strictly adhering to all COVID-19 safety protocols. The idea is not just to plant saplings and forget, instead they have arranged for tending to those till they become full grown trees and throughout their lifetime.

Tai Nizawa, Managing Director of Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. said, “We are delighted to complete 11 years of operations in India, successfully catering to the evolving printing needs and demands of businesses. We would like to thank all our customers and partners for believing in us and maintaining this long-standing relationship. This tree plantation drive is just a small effort (PRAYAAS) towards the environment and giving back to society.” 

Aravalli Hills is chosen as the location because of a multitude of reasons foremost among them being that it checks the desertification of the norther plains in India, it also acts as the “green lungs” for not only Delhi NCR but also the adjoining states and last but not the least has a positive impact on the overall climate of the region by helping in the recharge of the ground water as well as ensuring that the bio diversity continues to thrive.

As a responsible business leader, Konica Minolta has been taking several initiatives to protect the environment. The brand also runs a program for collecting used MFPs, printers, and other products from customers, and recycling them in compliance with the necessary laws in each location. Rather than manually crushing these discarded items in entirety, the partner agency recycles and reuses them as raw materials after appropriate segregation (Plastics, metals, and toxic wastes). Konica Minolta has recently been felicitated with the prestigious Grand Prix award for consistently working towards improving the environment. 

About Konica Minolta India

We are part of Konica Minolta, Inc. a premier Japanese multinational corporation, with a market legacy of almost 150 years and a worldwide presence spanning over 150 international markets. We are specialised in the field of enterprise printing solutions and Enterprise Content Management space. We have been directly present in India for the past 11 years, catering to a wide range of printing & document solutions requirement for the Indian corporate customers.

Konica Minolta is a pioneer and leader in the field of imaging technologies and has continued investing in innovation for such diverse fields as Advanced Monitoring, Digital Manufacturing and Smart Workplaces, so we are well poised to usher in the AI / IoT inspired transition to cyber-physical systems that is heralding the industry 4.0 era, and likewise are also working in the Analytics and Deep Learning for the Society 5.0 transformation.

We offer Intelligent Connected Workplace (ICW) Services to our customer by which we bring efficiency in the utilisation of the print resources while managing the complexity arising from a multitude of user requirements, with the end result being not merely a reduction in the print costs but also an increase in user productivity with enhanced security and sustainability benefits. In essence, our ICW offering helps our customers to MINIMISE ALL Complexities / Costs / Environmental Impact and MAXIMISE ALL Resources Utilisation / Productivity / Security.

To know more please visit: www.konicaminolta.in

India, 7 August,2021: Our launch of the C4070 & C4065 is yet another important step in enhancing our line of color production printers, providing an easy transition into digital printing with inline finishing options allowing prints to be ready for delivery off the press.” said by Tai Nizawa, Managing Director“ The advanced automation, high quality and productivity and myriad finishing options these presses offer translate into endless opportunities for printers to expand into new markets and develop new.

The AccurioPress C4070 & AccurioPrint C4065 are an all-in-one print factory that will help enable business growth through intelligent automation, outstanding image quality and print application diversity. The C4070 Series replaces the C3070 Series, an entry-level, light production press debuted in 2018. The new series also includes the AccurioPress C4070 and AccurioPrint C4065, a lighter version that can bridge the gap between an entry level Color and production print with the same image quality at a more affordable budget. The AccurioPress C4070 and AccurioPrint C4065 digital press print at 71 & 66 A4 impressions per minute respectively and offer the flexibility of two-sided printing on sheets up to 34” long (allowing the capability of producing an 8-panel, letter-size brochure) with improved resolution of 2400 dpi.

The AccurioPress Series uses the Konica Minolta’s advanced colour processing technology Screen-Enhancing Active Digital Process (S.E.A.D). This combines an array of technical innovations to guarantee exceptional colour reproduction at top speed.

Incredible Productivity and Versatility

The AccurioPress C4070 and AccurioPrint C4065 digital press print at 71/66 ppm and offer the flexibility of 2-sided printing on sheets up to 34” long, allowing the capability of producing an 8-panel, letter-size brochure. The AccurioPress C4070 expands application offerings such as envelope printing without the need for an additional fuser. Experience unmatched productivity and versatility with the AccurioPress C4070 various finishing options, including booklets, perfect bound, punching, stapling, inline trimming, and stacking to meet customers’ needs and tap into new revenue streams. Productivity of C4070 / C4065 @300 GSM is 45 A4/26 A3 subsequently.

The range has been adaptive with any workflow environment, Konica Minolta offers a choice of controllers from Konica Minolta and EFI. The AccurioPress 4070 Series also benefit from the a range of productivity solutions under AccurioPro Suite umbrella, one of the industry’s most versatile and powerful tool to optimise print operations and workflows. The solutions include various tools for pre-press, job ticketing, press management, job management, unified color management, web to print etc.

Advanced Automation

New to the C4070 Series is the IM-101 external media detection sensor, an optional sensor for measuring and identifying media, ensuring the correct media settings are selected no matter the operator’s skill. The TU-510, IM-101, and the IQ-501, a fully automated, closed-loop quality management tool, provide customers with the ability to produce fully-finished, high-quality, ready to be boxed output quickly and easily without skilled operators — meaning increased uptime, productivity, quality, and profit.

The AccurioPress C4070 Series brings automation to a new level with the Inline Trimmer Unit TU 501, which produces fully finished output with inline slitting and trimming and additional options for inline creasing (valley and mountain crease), business cards, postcard cutting and perforation (vertical and horizontal). Plus, the TU-510 has an option to deliver fully trimmed and creased long sheets of up to 51″ to the output tray.

Image Quality and Media Flexibility

The AccurioPress C4070 provides outstanding image quality with 3600 (equivalent) x2400 dpi resolution and prints duplex sheets up to 34”. Envelopes can be printed with the standard fuser at half speed, or full speed with an optional dedicated envelope fuser. The IQ-501 Intelligent Quality Optimizer also comes into play here, performing automatic density correction and front-to-back registration prior to printing. Media versatility up to 360 gsm will provide a wide portfolio of paper choices and print applications.

Konica Minolta’s AccurioPress C4070 Series is available in India from August,2021