Production Print Technology Inspires Customer Passion in Las Vegas
Posted on Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Konica Minolta Where Production Print Matters
By Andy & Julie Plata, co-CEOs, OutputLinks Communications Group
Since OutputLinks speaks to the high volume transaction and production print space, we are limiting our impressions of Konica Minolta’s “Inspire Customer Passion” conference to those related to production print.
We had the opportunity to attend Konica Minolta’s “Inspire Customer Passion” conference January 15-17, 2012. The event was attended by more than 1,100 dealer representatives plus a great number of C-Level Konica Minolta executives, including Ned Umehara, President and CEO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.
This was a high-class event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas with a dealer orientation on multi-function printers, optimized print services and managed IT services.
But for those of us in the high volume print arena, a bigger pay off than the slot machines was the serious focus that Konica Minolta brought to production print at the conference. A large section of the Exhibit showcase at the event was dedicated to production print equipment and demonstrations.
We must admit that as previous owners of production print facilities, we had never considered Konica Minolta a serious player in that space. But, after this conference, we are now well aware that Konica Minolta is serious about and intends to be a major player in production print.
10 Million Page/Month Printers!
Konica Minolta has a growing array of direct or partnered production printers. Their offerings include a line of high speed, variable data printers capable of producing up to 10 million pages/month or their digital presses capable of 500,000 page/month or their wide format printers or their…
These were all big eye openers for us. If you are like us and always considered Konica Minolta as office only low to mid volume office printers, you can probably understand our amazement. We invested a good deal of time at the conference, taking a closer look at how Konica Minolta could have a positive effect on the business of print for print service providers and commercial printers.
The Konica Minolta team did a great job at the conference of showing how the combination of their corporate and dealer teams were being trained and supported to handle large, high demand print facilities. A number of case studies and success stories showed that the march to success in Production print was well on the way for Konica Minolta and its dealers.
In todays’ business environment, maximizing quality and productivity while minimizing operating and acquisition costs is essential. If Konica Minolta can help high volume printers achieve those objectives, they will be a welcome friend to the OutputLinks high volume print community.
We look forward to following Konica Minolta over the coming months to monitor and report on their continuing success in production print. So come back soon for our follow-on reports or just click the RSS Feed button on this page to follow our reports.
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Happy Print
Andy & Julie Plata
Co-CEO's, OutputLinks Communications Group