How Eco Printing reduces carbon emissions and Helps in saving the Environment

India, 24 July,2023: Sustainability in recent years has become a hot topic for all boardroom discussions across the globe. Whether it’s a large organization or an SME, businesses across all verticals are either already in the process of investing or looking for methods that assist them in achieving their sustainability goal.

In the backdrop of this ongoing trend, the printing industry as well has changed its way of working. There are multiple areas where businesses can make changes and ensure they are on the right path toward achieving their sustainability target. Whether it is wastage, carbon footprint, or the type of materials, organisations in this segment use – these all can be reduced so that the firm can operate in a more environment-friendly way. One of the most crucial and underrated areas/components in any organisation is its printer.

Even though the majority of businesses in the post-pandemic times have already digitalised their large chunk of operations, printers continue to play a vital role in their smooth functioning. In 2021, the value of the print industry across India was over 225 billion rupees, and the report suggests that the numbers will exceed 250 billion rupees by 2024. However, the industry will still take some time to reach the pre-pandemic levels, i.e., 296 billion rupees in 2019.

The positive outlook brings a wave of relief and positivity to all participants in the printing industry. However, there still looms a threat, especially from the sustainability angle. So, how can the industry overcome the rapidly evolving scenario? The answer lies in making printing eco-friendly.

One of the ways to achieve it is by using materials that are produced from renewable energy. This primarily includes paper produced from sustainable forestry practices and inks that are made from plant-based material. Additionally, using recycled paper can greatly cut down the environmental impact of printing, as it minimises the need for virgin materials and the energy required to produce them.

Additionally, using sustainable materials and digital printing can also reduce their overall environmental impact. For instance, companies can use digital printing methods, such as online printing services and document management software, to trim down the amount of paper they use. It is worth mentioning that some of the leading Print Service Providers (PSPs) are finding solutions and technologies that support the printing/graphics industry as it shifts to a more sustainable future.

Today, digital printing uses inkjet or toner-based printing technology to produce a wide range of high-quality prints with a minimal environmental impact. This is because digital printing does not require the use of traditional printing plates, which can generate a large amount of waste. Additionally, digital printing uses less energy than traditional offset printing, which results in lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Another non-conventional printing method used by PSPs and print converters is variable data printing (VDP). It enables businesses to provide personalization of each printed piece, which can be beneficial in reducing the amount of waste generated during the printing process. With the presence of VDP and digital printing, PSPs today are positioned better to provide tailored assistance to the customer, which automatically slashes the need for reprints or discarded materials.

Finally, assisting environmentalists and governments in reducing carbon emissions is the need of the hour. The printing industry can take the rising global temperature as a nature’s slap on the wrist. Therefore, it is imperative to bring boardroom conversations and targets into reality. The big question remains, from where to start? Businesses in the space can begin by encouraging their employees and peers to recycle paper, cardboard, and other office waste. Using sustainable materials, energy-efficient equipment/machine, and sustainable printing practices can help to minimize the environmental impact of printing while also reducing costs and improving efficiency. By working together, the industry can create a difference, making the future of the printing industry more sustainable.

Konica Minolta India Hosts Annual Strategic Partner Conference 2023, Focusing on Tech Innovations and Growth

• ‘Powering Growth’ Theme Inspires Over 170+ Partners to Connect and Collaborate

• Konica Minolta Management Shares Strategies for Sustaining Growth and Building Strong Relationships with Partners

India(New Delhi), 16 May,2023: Konica Minolta India, a leader in providing digital transformation solutions and services, recently hosted its Annual strategic Partner Conference at Alila Diwa, Goa. The event was centred around the theme of “Powering Growth” and featured dialogues on the latest tech innovations in the industry and their potential to be scaled to Konica Minolta’s realm of operations.

The conference, held on April 24th, 2023, provided a platform for over 170+ partners from across India to connect, discuss the latest trends in the industry, and share their vision for the future. During the session, the Konica Minolta management team communicated their strategy to sustain the growth path of the company and add more power to the growth path as a family. The session covered dialogues around the latest tech interventions in the industry, providing partners with insights into the latest industry trends.

Speaking about the annual partner conference and its importance for the brand, Mr. Katsuhisa Asari Managing Director of Konica Minolta India said, ” Partners are the backbone of the company. We are always eager to connect with our valued Partner Community to understand their unique challenges and opportunities. The conference provides a platform for us to connect with our partners, understand the latest industry trends, and share our vision for the future. We are committed to providing our partners with the latest cutting-edge solutions and services, as well as building stronger relationships, to create a better future for the industry.”

During the conference, partners were also felicitated for their achievements, recognizing the important role they play in Konica Minolta’s growth journey. The partners also aligned with the company’s growth strategy and shared their commitment to achieving new heights as a family.

The event witnessed over 170+ partners from across geographies in PAN India, making it a great success for Konica Minolta India. This conference was an opportunity for Konica Minolta India to strengthen its relationship with its partners and take the collaboration to the next level.

Konica Minolta Inida Brings Enrichments To it’s Managed Content Solutions Offering

India, 17 April,2023: Konica Minolta India, a prominent provider of digital transformation solutions and services, continues to support businesses in transitioning from paper-based systems to seamless digital solutions and services. As part of this commitment, the company has announced major enrichments to its Managed Content Services (MCS) portfolio to provide features with low-code automation capabilities, aimed at empowering Indian firms to improve their Document life-cycle management and Business Process Management (BPM).

Konica Minolta India, through their MCS offerings, leverages its unified enterprise-wide solutioning platforms and adds value through its consultation-based approach to tailor make solutions to fit their customer’s business requirements. With their current enrichments, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) mode of deployment can be leveraged by organisations looking to accelerate their Digital Transformation journey with minimal hassle and quicker ROI. To ensure secured cloud deployments, these solutions are hosted in Tier-4 datacentres meeting the best of industry standards.

Speaking about the anticipated launch Mr. Katsuhisa Asari, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India, said, ” At Konica Minolta, we are always eager to gain a deeper understanding of the unique challenges our clients face to enhance productivity. After comprehending their content management and utilization requirements, we are delighted to introduce our unique software to the Indian market. MCS offerings can propel our clients ahead, with its out-of-the-box offerings in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. In the normal course of their operations, our clients receive documents in various formats, including hard copies and electronic versions, from multiple locations. At this juncture, MCS assumes a vital role in structuring the content in an organized manner, enabling them to optimise their workflows and achieve their objectives with greater efficiency.”

With its “low-code/no-code” process designer, rapid implementation and flexibility is the new norm that ultimately leads to an Intelligent Connected Workplace.

To further enable Rapid Implementation, Konica Minolta has biz-out-of-the-box accelerator for popular industry use cases like Accounts Payable automation, Contracts Life-cycle Management, Vendor Onboarding, Talent Acquisition and so on.

The modular design provides flexibility in terms of overall solutioning, deployment and pricing. Through these offerings, Konica Minolta will lead towards a Green Digital Transformation which is also aligned to their global sustainability goals where they aim to be ‘Carbon Minus’ by 2050. Ultimately, enrichments to its solutioning platform will aid Konica Minolta in serving their customers better leading to an efficient and paperless workplace.

Pamex 2023: Konica Minolta showcases its range of offering

At Pamex 2023, held at the Bombay Exhibition Center on 27-30 March, Konica Minolta showcased its printers to existing and potential customers and resellers.

India, 14 April,2023: Konica Minolta used the event as an opportune moment to showcase its offerings, including industrial and professional printers; in industrial printers, AccurioLabel 230, AccurioShine 3600, along with its digital die-cutting solutions and in professional printers, AccurioPress C12000 with IQ-501.

Konica Minolta emphasised the extensive benefits of its digital press, the Accurio Label 230, for its customers regarding productivity, flexibility, and stability to meet growing market needs. Overall, the company showcased six sheetfed professional printers and three industrial printers along with finishing accessories, to make pre-press to post-press setup with ample business opportunities in the printing market.

Katsuhisa Asari, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India, said, “We are delighted to receive such a positive response from all potential businesses in the region. The exhibition has given us an insight into how Konica Minolta is enabling businesses in the printing segment to expand their operations. At the same time, it has given us a new viewpoints/areas in which we can develop and modify our products that further assist our user base.

He added, “We, at Konica Minolta India, believe that trust is the best medium to grow success. In tandem with this as our core value, we have well-positioned ourselves in providing office automation and digital printing solutions that aid us in bolstering our credibility amongst our esteemed partners and resellers. With our solutions and products, we are committed to assisting businesses in achieving their sustainability target.”

Konica Minolta also demonstrated their AccurioShine 3600 and AccurioPress C12000 as tools for digital label production. The AccurioShine 3600 is a pioneering technology that customers could use for building 2D and 3D gloss effects on its products. With customisation and personalisation at the forefront of Konica Minolta’s offerings, the company cater to the ever-growing demand for tailored printing solutions that enable customers to address the increasingly complex requirements of modern-day printing.

Konica Minolta’s ‘Print Xpress’ initiative aims to attract potential printing businesses

Konica Minolta flags off 4 Print Xpress coaches to demonstrate production printing solutions to potential customers in India’s T2, T3, and T4 towns

India, 21 March,2023: Promoting Konica Minolta’s 150-year legacy, Konica Minolta India recently flagged off its first mobile roadshow platform titled ‘Print Xpress – Innovations in Print’ in the presence of Katsuhisa Asari, managing director; Kuldeep Malhotra, deputy managing director and senior leadership members of the company.

The one-of-a-kind roadshow showcased Konica Minolta’s production printer AccurioPrint C4065 High Chroma Engine – AccurioPress C73hc and finished Print Application Zone to educate customers for new business opportunities in the digital print business.

The core objective to launch this innovative platform is to connect with new customers and showcase new business possibilities to the existing players and also to new entrants in the digital production printing space.

As part of the Print Xpress, four coaches carrying the digital presses set out to travel in all four directions while demonstrating their usage to potential and existing customers. The roadshow started from Greater Noida and is aimed to cover the T2, T3 and T4 towns like Meerut, Gorakhpur, Samastipur, Tezpur, Ranipet, Karwar, and Kavali among others, focusing on customers and unfrequented locations.

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Katsuhisa Asari, managing director of Konica Minolta Business Solutions India, said, We are excited to launch Print Xpress, our latest initiative to expand our reach and introduce our advanced printing technologies to the customers. We look forward to meeting new customers during this nationwide show. We are proud to pioneer innovative solutions and services in India’s printing, imaging, and document management industries. We are committed to helping our customers to achieve more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workflows. We will continue to strive for excellence in everything we do.

Print Xpress is the first initiative in the digital production printing domain wherein modified coaches are used to exhibit our solutions to a wide array of potential customers, including jobbers, photo lab owners, print businesses, and creative agencies, residing in different cities and towns. As an industry leader, we hold more than 50% market share and offer the most comprehensive product portfolio from pre-press to post-press.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way’ – Print Xpress is the perfect example to showcase our commitment towards reaching and educating new potential customers and existing businesses to start and grow. In the last 12 years, we as a leading brand grew multi-fold,” said, Kuldeep Malhotra, deputy managing director, sales and OP marketing division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions India.

Boosting ties: Konica Minolta holds Office Printer customers meets

• Key leaders of Konica Minolta were present during the meets.
• The company plans to strengthen relations with existing customers and expand its user base.

India, 16 March,2023: Konica Minolta India, a leading name in, the field of enterprise, commercial & industrial printing along with business process automation, hosted a series of meets to interact with Enterprise customers across the country. In meets held across 4 locations, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, and Pune, the company engaged with end users and gained insight into their business requirements and market dynamics through this networking event. This insight is instrumental in guiding the company’s leadership as they make strategic decisions and develop policies that address their customers’ unique requirements while keeping pace with the market’s ever-changing needs. Ultimately, this aids Konica Minolta in serving its customers better, building lasting relationships, and achieving long-term success. The meets also aimed to foster more robust and long-term customer relationships.

The meets aimed to highlight the benefits of using Konica Minolta’s Multifunction office Printer (MFP) technology that enhances businesses’ efficiency on account of its new-generation features and new age solutions to address customer challenges. These customer meets were held over a month. The leadership team of Konica Minolta attended the meeting. The leaders emphasized transforming their clients’ businesses through Konica Minolta’s broad range of innovative print solutions.

Speaking about these events, Mr. Katsuhisa Asari, Managing Director of Konica Minolta India, said,” At Konica Minolta, we are always eager to connect with our customers and gain a deeper understanding of their unique challenges and opportunities. We explored how our advanced technology, innovative solutions, and comprehensive services can support our customers in achieving their business objectives and drive their success forward in today’s rapidly evolving digitized industry. With our broad range of printing solutions we are able to transform our client’s business and help them gain competitive advantage. We aim to produce a tangible output aligned with each of our client’s unique visions, giving shape to their innovative ideas.

The meetings were suitable opportunities to showcase how Konica Minolta’s product portfolio, which includes hardware and solution offerings such as Intelligent Connected Workplace/document and print management, can back organizations in their journey toward digital transformation without compromising on data security concerns.

Emphasizing the significance of these meetings, Mr. Kuldeep Malhotra, Deputy Managing Director, Sales Division & Office Marketing, said, “We were thrilled to have organized such events that not only allowed us to network but also aided us in understanding customer goals and shaping our plans to cater to their precise needs. These meetings let us devise how our state-of-the-art printers could align with our customer’s digital ambitions. It allowed us to know more than we can cognize by ourselves. We are confident that these events will be essential to driving growth and unlocking new opportunities for our company and customers.”

Konica Minolta Launches Go-Green Initiative, Starts Deliveries Of Products Via EV

India, 10 February,2023: Konica Minolta has initiated local deliveries of small machines and accessories to its consumers in Delhi, Noida, Cochin, and Guwahati via Electric Vehicles. The company has shifted to pollution-free 2-wheeler and 3-wheelers for a greener tomorrow. It now caters to delivering small machines, spare parts, and equipment under 100 kilograms to customers. It uses electric 2- and 3-wheelers in Delhi and Noida to meet the customers’ needs and is utilising 2-wheelers in Cochin and Guwahati.

Expressing thoughts on this initiative, Katsuhisa Asari, MD, Konica Minolta said, “Through this initiative, we aim to do our bit to reduce the impact on the environment and leave a greener presence. We at Konica Minolta believe that any opportunity you have to be green, be it in everyday life or business innovations, you should take it. Our customers have also reacted positively to our switch to eco-friendly transport. Their support has further helped us make the switch efficient and smooth.”

The Go-green is a step towards flourishing growth in a global, sustainable world. The EVs being utilised work on rechargeable battery-based engines, leading to low running and maintenance costs as opposed to traditional fuels. The vehicles have no toxic emissions that would affect public health.

Konica Minolta has a program to collect used MFPs and printers from customers and recycle them, following applicable laws. Instead of manually crushing these discarded items entirely, the partner agency recycles and reuses them as raw materials after appropriate segregation. With this vision, Konica will contribute for reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050 under Eco-vision 2030 and Eco-vision 2050.

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Konica Minolta showcases digital print solutions at CEIF 2023

India, 19 January,2023: Konica Minolta Business Solutions showcased its Accurio C12000 and C83hc at the CEIF 2023 held at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai from 5 to 7 January.

When asked what the main trends and industry developments are, Manish Gupta, head of marketing at Konica Minolta (KM) said, “Bringing production efficiencies are the key trends.” He pointed out that photographers and small photo labs are looking at expanding their scope of operations and KM has the right products to bring a good TCO for the new entrants into digital photobook printing.” KM has introduced a 120 pages per minute production printer AccurioPress C12000 to meet the requirement for high-speed production. Both the engines offer unique value to the customers.

KM showcased the Accurio at the show. As Gupta said, “Our endeavour at these expos is to meet our prospective customers and share the new inputs with our existing customers. This is the platform where our customers can meet sales, service, pre-sales, and marketing under one roof.” He added. “CEIF gives the opportunity to the visitors to get to know and understand key aspects of photo entrepreneurship. Be it: image correction, imposition, printing, and post-printing including internet integration and sharing the images over various platforms.”

Commenting about the CEIF show, Gupta said, “Things are changing after Covid. Today, customers are looking for more solutions besides printing. The trade people are looking at more value-added things like uniform colour, media versatility, finishing options etc. to bring a change from the past.

Gupta pointed out that “Digital printing particularly KM in our opinion has helped a lot of customers in India to survive and thrive. This is because the traditional methods of printing photobooks were getting obsolete and were not environmentally friendly. KM introduced high chroma machines to upgrade to digital.” Gupta said, “We foresee the market of photobook printing to grow, and we continue to bring more products and solutions for this sector.”

He said, “Today we have a lot of people shooting many more photographs on their smartphones. The photo to photobook conversion has begun.” But Gupta hastened to add, “A lot needs to be done to educate the people in managing and monetising the photographs available with them. Some companies are doing this, but there is still a long way to go.”