Basildon UK, 24 April 2007
Konica Minolta Business Solutions has announced its Solutions Portfolio, a comprehensive range of software solutions for the Konica Minolta bizhub range of document imaging systems. The Solutions Portfolio includes applications developed by Konica Minolta and a number of ‘best of breed’ solutions produced by third party developers, supplied and supported by Konica Minolta.

The Solutions Portfolio covers the entire print management process: origination, workflow, fulfilment and archiving. As well as covering the spectrum of print management the Solutions Portfolio has been designed to meet the needs of all Konica Minolta customers, from small workgroups to commercial production print.

To support the Solutions Portfolio Konica Minolta has created the Professional Services and Solutions Group with 24 staff headed by Mat Stanley. The new group will ensure Konica Minolta customers receive expert consultancy on the right solutions for their business applications. Konica Minolta will implement solutions and supply on-going customer support for its own and most third party solutions supplied by the company.

The Solutions Portfolio includes PageScope, Konica Minolta’s suite of integrated software applications and utilities that allow businesses to save time, reduce costs and increase productivity. PageScope delivers networked information flow from the desktop, enabling businesses to manage their bizhub documents and bizhub devices more effectively through a single interoperative system for increased efficiency.

For Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRO range of high-speed production print systems the Solutions Portfolio will include the Printgroove a suite of modules developed to manage the digital production print process from origination through to fulfilment, management and billing.

The first four Printgroove modules in development are:

• Printgroove POD Serve - Web submission with real-time status verification
• Printgroove POD Ready - Make-ready with auto/manual imposition and scan document modification
• Printgroove POD Queue - Print/device management with last-minute job ticket editing
• Printgroove POD Guide - Workflow/job management with system-wide monitoring and job ticket management through to billing

Commenting on new Solutions Portfolio, Mat Stanley said, “In a networked print environment hardware can only be half of the solution. Print management is increasingly seen as crucial for efficiency and productivity. Our customers are keen to harness the benefits and cost savings of effective print management and the Solutions Portfolio will allow us to meet that need. Uniquely we can offer customers and end-to-end service taking in both hardware and software. Our service is also comprehensive extending from consultancy to implementation and with on-going customer support”.


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About Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd markets business machines manufactured by Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc, in the United Kingdom through a direct sales force and a network of independent dealerships. Konica Minolta digital imaging systems are manufactured in Japan and China. All are ISO9002 accredited for quality procedures.

UK turnover for Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd is in excess of £120 million, placing the company fifth in the digital copier market with a 8.6 per cent share of the black and white market and a market leading 34.9 per cent share of the colour market (not including colour capable systems) according to Infosource.

With a total workforce of 19,800 employees world wide, Konica Minolta Business Technologies generated net sales of over £3.15 billion in fiscal 2005/2006. Globally Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. has a turnover £6.1 billion. Building on its strong core of optical technologies developed over many years, Konica Minolta Business Technologies aims to be a corporation offering products and services that are essential to all areas of digital imaging.

A colour image to accompany this press release is available at www.konicaminolta-images.com


For further information contact:
John Howard
Head of Marketing
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd
Tel: 01908 200400
Fax: 08701 321751
E-mail: John.Howard@bs.konicaminolta.co.uk
Web: www.konicaminolta.co.uk

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