Business Solutions|Printing Solutions- KONICA MINOLTA

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a global leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies recently organised a roadshow in Nalgonda, Telangana where it demonstrated its state-of-the-art Production Printers with the pivotal highlights of the event being the bizhub PRESS C71hc & C1060 production printer.

The roadshow was organised to showcase the company’s production printers as well
as to furnish a platform for the printing businesses about the next generation technologies in the vertical. It was also focused to meet the customer’s end to end demands and gain a 360-degree visibility in their industry related requirements.

About bizhub C71hc and C1060

The 3rd generation machine bizhub PRESS C71hc packs in immense benefits over its predecessor. This model incorporates advanced colour reproduction capabilities of the manufacturer’s proprietary high-chroma toner that produces enhanced printing outputs. bizhub PRESS C71hc also comes with an optional banner tray to support the printing on media up to 13×47. This gives the customers to print bigger format of photo albums. Another asset of the bizhub PRESS C71hc is their wide range of finishing capabilities and its combination with a workflow software Print Xpress.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRESS C1060 is an ideal solution for small as well as mid-range industrial printing businesses, delivering a fast print/copy output of up-to 60 ppm. With a superior colour image quality, purpose built reliability and simple touchscreen control, a business can receive every advantage of digital production like variable-data printing and scanning.

Konica Minolta’s highly skilled and dedicated engineers have also incorporated the bizhub PRESS C1060 with a 7,500-sheet maximum paper capacity for long press runs without interruption. The printing solution is compatible with paper sizes of upto 13’’x 19.2” and weights up to 300 gsm. It also offers versatile inline finishing options to suit any production requirements.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions comes as a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The Japan headquartered company is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. The company with its high quality printing solutions, particularly for SMBs, offers unmatched customer service in India. With ‘Digital Printing’ being the next big thing in the country’s printing space, the company is committed to fetch help businesses transit smoothly from conventional printing to digital printing.

The flagship models bizhub PRESS C1085/C1100 furnish the printing businesses with an advantage of a seamless growth in their operations, catering to the high volume printing demands of customers with unprecedented precision stability and unmatched productivity.

Aforesaid both digital colour printing solutions also offer comprehensive configuration options to enhance the printing business offerings with high level of automation.

The bizhub PRESS C1100 and C10850 offers printing speeds of 100/85 A4ppm respectively on 55 to 350 gsm papers, printing businesses can smoothly perform operations of small lot orders and variable data printing jobs with stringent deadlines, generating new revenue streams. The machines are capable of doing Auto Duplex printing upto 350 GSM at the same productivity. The suction feeding system in the machine helps to attain the high productivity reliably.

The bizhub PRESS C1100 & C1085 offers stable high image quality as required by professional users for high volume printing. With the presence of cutting edge Simitri HDE toner and S.E.A.D. IV image processing technologies the machines, are perfectly aligned to customer’s demands for high quality print outputs.

Bizhub PRESS C1100 & C1085 also increases efficiency during post-processing, with booklet making, auto ring binding, perfect binding, hole punching, GBC punching, as well as 6 types of folding and stapling.

The bizhub Press have various automation tools to help our customers to be more productive and proactive to keep the machine always available to take more jobs. The machine can be configured with the Konica Minolta CSRC server to send various communication/ alerts on various pre-defined parameters for e.g. Toner alerts etc. The Daily Maintenance Guide program for the operators to help & maintain the machine always in healthy condition.

Salient Features of bizhub PRESS C1085/C1100-:Unparalleled Productivity

The two machines offer the ability to handle varied range of paper types and are capable of stable, high-speed output of thin coated paper flyers to thick paper pop, which were earlier considered as difficult to print.

The paper feeding tool can be expanded to manage 9 different paper types with maximum input paper capability of 13,890 sheets and maximum output capacity of 10,000 sheets. The solutions also enable on the fly operations such as paper replenishment and removal.

High image positioning precision

The highly précised registration unit fusing the existing paper skew detection/auto-correction mechanism with an interim roller nip release mechanism as well as a registration unit skew correction mechanism offers realisation of high front-to-back registration accuracy.

Compatible with numerous industry standards

The two machines support various industry standards as well as high-level colour management. With JDF support, APPE, Pantone, industry-standard Fiery and Creo controller, both C1085 and C1100 represent state-of-the-art models for the printing industry.

The printing solutions are compatible with a host of operating systems including Windows Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / Server 2008R2 / 8 / Server 2012*1/MacOSX 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.8 (PPC/Intel)/Windows Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / Server 2008R2 / 8 / Server 2012^*1.

bizhub PRESS C1100/C1085 can house paper size of up to a maximum of 330 × 487mm and are capable of handling a maximum printing area of 321 × 480mm. The printers are also capable of A3-size printing with crop marks and A4 size 2-up printing with crop marks.

About Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd:

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit:www.konicaminolta.in

Thank you for choosing Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta received a question from few customers on vulnerability concern on MFP and Printer connected to the internet. We would like to inform the way to securely use MFP / Printer in network.

Konica Minolta MFPs should be used within a protected network environment such as Firewall, and also used with the standard security settings. By using these functions, one will not encounter a data breach or unauthorized use.

Konica Minolta has established a system to answer security issues for customers and visit them to ensure that they recognize the importance of security. The most important thing for us is to provide safe and secured products to our customers. We continue to provide up-to-date safety information.

Please re-check your security settings once again to secure your data. If you require any assistance regarding security settings etc. please contact our sales representatives or customer service centre.

Recommended operation:

1. Protect your networks with firewalls in order to block unauthorized access from external networks.

2. Update passwords regularly such as administrator password, user authentication password, and password to access SMB folders.

3. Enable “IP address filtering” setting in Admin mode in order to restrict access from an unspecified location on the capable MFP models.

4. Take other possible operations at customer sites to make secure environments.

Konica Minolta received a question from a few customers on vulnerability concern on MFP and Printer connected to the internet, we would like to inform of the way securely using MFP/Printer in networks.

Konica Minolta MFPs should be used within a protected network environment such as Firewall, and also used with the standard security settings. By using these functions, you can minimize the risk of encountering a data breach or unauthorized use.

Konica Minolta has established a system to answer security issues for customers to ensure that they recognize the importance of security.

The most important thing for us is to provide safe and secured products to our customers. We continue to provide up-to-date safety information.

Please re-check your security settings once again to secure your data. If you require any assistance regarding security settings etc. please contact our sales representatives or customer service centre.

Konica Minolta, a global leader in home and enterprise multifunctional printing segment has added one more jewel to its crown with the launch of e-bizVAULT, a cloud based web DMS (Document Management System) solution which furnishes all the benefits of a DMS in a cloud environment for enterprises.

e-bizVAULT protects an organisation against data loss, system failure and as well as unauthorised system access. Furthermore it is also accessible on a notebook, in the organisation’s network, over the web, in the cloud or in a smart-phone as well as a tablet, ensuring maximum agility for a business.The solution also eliminates the need for setting up servers or configuring applications for a business, reducing expenditures significantly.

e-bizVAULT comes as a boon not only to cloud friendly organisations (Cloud Email/CRM users), but also to small workgroups or SMB enterprises with no in-house IT infrastructure, as well as for organisations that are distributed geographically with poor or no WAN connectivity.

Please re-check your security settings once again to secure your data. If you require any assistance regarding security settings etc. please contact our sales representatives or customer service centre.

Expressing his delight on the launch, Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India, said, ‘’We at Konica Minolta believe that our affordable solution shall accelerate cloud adoption to usher in the next IT revolution in India. e-bizVAULT is a perfect offering for organisations eying a scalable and secure DMS solution over the cloud to fetch more agility and operational efficiency. It will also help businesses reduce their operating expenditures significantly.’’

Konica Minolta has recently added to its growing portfolio of cloud services in India with the launch of web2print solution and is also eying a multi fold growth in commercial and industrial printing products in the coming 3-4 years.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions comes as a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The Japan headquartered company is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. The company with its high quality printing solutions, particularly for SMBs, offers unmatched customer service in India. With ‘Digital Printing’ being the next big thing in the country’s printing space, the company is committed to fetch help businesses transit smoothly from conventional printing to digital printing.

Konica Minolta, a global leader in business and home printing solutions has added one more milestone to its value added solutions in the Indian printing market with the launch of ‘’Infinite,’’ a new segment of web to print solutions and services which will offer support to Printing businesses in expanding their operations, warranting the best commercial value

Konica Minolta has 3000+ plus production printers in India as of now and is converging its focus to enhance the support systems for the print market. The web to print solutions and services are easy to use and customers do not require any specialized skills to start up the business.

The solution will also help companies involved in printing operations to bolster sales and enhance relationship with their existing customers. Konica Minolta India, in this regard has also partnered with one of the most dynamic web to print service provider “Design ‘N’ Buy Webto Print Pvt. Ltd” to help INFINITE accomplish a downright success in the country.

The Indian e-commerce industry is growing at an unprecedented rate, registering a growth of 67 percent in the FY 2015-16, while corporate business orders surged 44 percent in the same period, owing to convenience of online ordering, numerous variety of products and competitive pricing.

‘’At present the web to print industry is in its growing stage and is also a huge opportunity in online business because of rapid technological changes and fast turnaround time demand. We are glad to announce the launch of INFINITE in India which is a browser based application that facilitates commerce, collaboration, and customer service interactions between buyers and sellers of printed products and enables more automation and efficient production and administration of print business,’’ said Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta during the launch.

With this buyers can upload their jobs, select templates or create online artwork through INFINITE solutions. The print houses will have advance automated job workflow equipped with full B2B and B2C administration. Currently these services will be on Hosted module (SaaS) and will be ready to use once personalized with customer environment.

‘’We are happy to partner with Konica Minolta to augment the growth of web to print services in the country. Together with our expertise and a comprehensive network of service support across India, we are confident to set new benchmarks in the growing high potential segment,’’ said Nidhi Agarwal, CEO, Design N Buy.

The solution is extremely secure and business will be available round the clock with advantage of custom pricing. Konica Minolta India is also planning to add-in more modules to INFINTE solutions in the coming phase.

High image positioning precision

The highly précised registration unit fusing the existing paper skew detection/auto-correction mechanism with an interim roller nip release mechanism as well as a registration unit skew correction mechanism offers realisation of high front-to-back registration accuracy.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions comes as a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The Japan headquartered company is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. The company with its high quality printing solutions, particularly for SMBs, offers unmatched customer service in India. With ‘Digital Printing’ being the next big thing in the country’s printing space, the company is committed to fetch help businesses transit smoothly from conventional printing to digital printing.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions has added one more milestoneto its list of CSR initiatives and has launched Youth Skill Development Program (YSDP) under which the leader in home and enterprise printing segment has joined hands with Care Skills Academy in Noida to support its north OP Partner to overcome their major challenges of Customer Engineers attrition and scarce skilled manpower in today’s business world. This academy is an authorized training partner of ESSCI (Electronic Sector Skills Council of India) working under the aegis of NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation).

YSDP is a comprehensive programme led by Care Skill Academy who will utilises its expertise in methodology to produce industry specific skilled manpower. Twenty Candidates would be attending this programme that will end in 2 months. Post this training, ESSCI personnel will examine the candidates & certify them with NSDC certification. This sought-after training & certification will provide beginners with the competencies to meet the industry expectation for reliable services & achieve customer satisfaction.

YSDP aims 100% job placement for certified candidates and would thus aim to be a great opportunity to have Win-Win situation for Konica Minolta, Partners and Candidates.

The company understands the vital importance of skilled manpower in successfully running a business and the initiative aims to reduce the drastic demand supply gap in the country when it comes to productive human resources. The two primary objectives which Konica Minolta aspires to achieve from the initiative include:

• Producing industry specific skilled manpower
• Lower attrition rate which is a major challenge in the present era

The cost of the entire program flagged off from December 1, 2016 including the expenses of training, food and accommodation will be borne by Konica Minolta. The two month programme will also come as a boon for beginners spanning across a host of varied subjects including-:

• Basic English
• Basic Electronics & Mechanical
• Some of the product illustrations contain optional accessories.
• Basic Electrical
• Soft Skill
• Xerographic Theory-B&W and colour machine
• Hardware & Software training- Konica Minolta MFPs

“We are committed to make the ambitious ‘’Skill India Initiative’’ a viable success in the country via contributing in producing highly skilled human resources. We are delighted to collaborate with Care Skills Academy in this regard to ensure a bright and prosperous future of the country’s youths as well as ease the burden of businesses in hunting for suitable talents,’’ said Mr Yuji Nakata, Managing Director of Konica Minolta on the noble initiative.

Konica Minolta also recently organised a CSR programme focused on child education, child protection, child rights, health & nutrition for underprivileged children in association with CRY foundation in India.

About Konica Minolta

Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit :www.konicaminolta.in

Konica Minolta, a global leader in advanced multifunctional printing segment has set another benchmark in the enterprise printing segment with the receiving of the prestigious SME Channels Award for its A3 MFP Printers.

With this the company has further strengthened its position in the highly competitive A3 Multi Functional Printing market in India, surpassing the other major vendors in the country’s printing space.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub A3 MFP series is tailored specifically to cater to the requirements of modern offices, furnishing whole new range of cutting edge features and functions to augment the office operations with maximum efficiency. The top of the line series also helps businesses generate high quality material.

Sharing his delight on the receiving of the award, Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India said, “We are honoured to receive the SME Channel award for our A3 MFP series which offers next generation features to efficiently meet the comprehensive requirements of new age offices. Konica Minolta is committed to spearhead the printing segment with its highly skilled global R&D workforce, dedicated to produce cutting edge and disruptive technologies in the vertical.”

The company also embarked its presence in the label and packaging segment in the country recently, with the unveiling of its bizhub PRESS C71cf printing solution at Labelexpo 2016, which will help businesses in the domain harness the endless benefits of digital printing.

Expressing a similar opinion, Kuldeep Malhotra, Sales Head, Konica Minolta India, said “The Indian printing market is witnessing a rapid transition with the emergence of new requirements, demanding holistic printing solutions. Our printing solutions align perfectly with these new age market demands, ensuring end to end printing operations for businesses.”

The award ceremony, held at New Delhi witnessed the gathering of numerous veterans and industry head honchos from different verticals.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit:www.konicaminolta.in

Konica Minolta, a global leader in production printing segment has announced that it will unveil its industry leading bizhub PRESS C71cf printing solution at Labelexpo 2016, to facilitate printers/convertors in the label and packaging segment, transitioning from analogue to digital printing.

The launch will also mark the company’s presence in the nascent yet high potential Digital Label Printing segment in India. The event will be held at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR from November 17 to November 20. Visitors can catch a glimpse of Konica Minolta’s new product line up at Hall No. 5, Stall No – F21.

bizhub PRESS C71cf leverages Konica Minolta’s cutting edge dry toner technology platform and comes as a perfect end to end printing solution for mid-range businesses involved in label printing with diverse requirements. The machine also offers an impressive printing resolution of 1200 dots per inch (dpi) and can print images with a maximum size of 1195*320 mm. The machine is flexible to use a variety of medias for various requirements of the jobs.

Expressing his delight on Konica Minolta’s participation at Labelexpo, 2016 , Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India said, ‘’India is one of the fastest emerging economies worldwide and is witnessing a rapid shift in the printing segment with an increasing demanding for high volume and diverse printing requirements. We at Konica Minolta are committed to help mid range industrial printing businesses in the country, avail the countless benefits of digital printing with our new product line up which we will showcase at the Labelexpo, 2016.

Visitors at Labelexpo, 2016 will also get a chance to fetch a detailed briefing about the two printing solutions by Konica Minolta’s top executives including Mr. Toru Suda, General Manager, IP Business Development Division, Konica Minolta Inc., Japan, Mr. Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India; Mr. Yoshinori Koide, Marketing Head for PP Business Unit & Mr. Kuldeep Malhotra, Sales Head, Konica Minolta India and Mr. Manish Gupta , National Manager,PP & IP Business Marketing .

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications, inkjet print heads and textile printers for industrial use, and related consumables and solution services. It is also engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of electronic materials (including TAC films), lighting source panels, functional films (including heat insulation films), and optical products (including lens units). To know more please visit:www.konicaminolta.in

About Labelexpo :

Labelexpo comes as the biggest platform In India for printing solution providers to demonstrate their offerings at a single venue. Consumers visiting the expo also get to experience live demonstrations of new disruptive technologies, emerging in the printing space to expand their business operations and explore new untapped markets. For more information please visit:www.labelexpo-india.com

Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced that it has opened a strategic business base in France to facilitate the growth of its industrial printing business.

Established as part of a global management strategy, this is Konica Minolta’s first overseas business base in its core business area, where the company will formulate medium- and long-term strategies to strengthen its industrial printing business by evaluating customer value propositions.

Aiming for workflow transformation in industrial printing

Konica Minolta is determined to evolve into a problem solving digital company capable of faciliating workflow transformation with its digital technologies to deliver greater convenience and higher productivity to customers’ work processes. The market size of industrial printing, including labels, packaging and textiles, is estimated at 50 trillion yen, which means there is a huge growth potential in the digital printing business. Also, needs for digital printing are increasing as more and more.

companies turn to marketing strategies that motivate customers to buy using exclusive label and packaging designs.Konica Minolta aims to deliver new value to the industrial printing industry and expand its digital printing business by leveraging its digital technologies to meet the need for high-mix small-lot production and shorter lead time, and also by offering solutions to enhance efficiency of printing operations.

Developing business in Europe, the center of the industrial printing business, in a customer-centric manner

With a concentration of leading-edge industrial printing companies and manufacturers of related equipment, Europe deserves to be called a global trendsetter in the industrial printing business. With a business base in Europe, the center of the global industrial printing market, Konica Minolta aims to accelerate the development of solutions for industrial printing through a cyclic process of creating new customer values and business models and then evaluating the values and business models jointly with customers. This customer-centric cyclic process, which Konica Minolta has employed as its original framework to evaluate customer values, has been making meaningful contributions to the company’s business and technical development in recent years.

In the label and packaging printing industry, digitalized high-mix small-lot production is also expected to largely enhance the efficiency of the post-press process of varnishing, laminating, foil stamping, and die cutting. Konica Minolta will seek opportunities to accelerate open innovation in this field through its existing alliance with MGI Digital Technology (MGI), a leading high value-added digital printing equipment* manufacturer based in France, and also by strengthening partnerships with a number of post-press equipment manufacturers in Europe.

In addition, Europe accounts for more than 50% of the world’s digital textile printing market and leads the world in the digitization in printing of wall paper and construction materials. While Konica Minolta has been offering inkjet digital textile printers and inkjet printheads to the European market, the company is confident it can develop new solutions for workflow transformation by being closer to the market.

* For the purpose of this news release, decoration printing equipment means equipment used to apply decorations to printed surfaces in the post-press process, such as spot varnishing and foil stamping.

Expanding business in the industrial printing area to achieve a huge growth

Since launching high-quality, compact production print systems with low introduction cost in 2003, Konica Minolta has largely expanded the digital printing market in the areas of commercial printing and in-house volume printing. For over a decade since then, Konica Minolta has created a digital commercial printing market and expanded the scope and range of its business activities, while developing print systems for various usage (from light to heavy) focusing on color printers. As a result, the company has increased the size of its production print business more than fivefold. In this process, Konica Minolta has implemented its own unique measures to strengthen the commercial and industrial printing business ahead of its competitors in the industry. These measures include applying its prowess in inkjet technology to the production print area, launching the Marketing Production Management (MPM) service that helps customers improve the printing process and supports planning and production of high value-added printed materials tailored to specific purposes such as sales promotion, entering into a financial and strategic alliance with MGI, acquiring additional stake in MGI and consolidating the financial results of MGI.

Under its Mid-term Business Strategy, Konica Minolta plans to expand its business by offering new solutions in industrial printing as well as value-added services in commercial printing to achieve its target to increase the total revenue in the production print business to 360 billion yen in fiscal 2020. Especially in the label and packaging markets, high-mix small-lot production has become available at an accelerated pace. Placing importance on the label and packaging markets that are likely to continue to steadily grow in the future, Konica Minolta has already prepared itself to cater to the needs of this promising market with the official launch of the bizhub PRESS C71cf on-demand label printer and the AccurioJet KM-1 B2 digital inkjet press, as well as by entering into a financial and strategic alliance with MGI.