Monthly Archives: March 2023

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.”