Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a global leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies, has announced the launch of the powerful bizhub658e/558e/458e black and white multifunction printer in India. The development marks yet another stellar addition to Konica Minolta’s extensive portfolio of office printing solutions in the country and further strengthens its offering in the demanding office work-group MFP segment.
What sets Konica Minolta bizhub 658e/558e/458e apart is its focus on enabling superlative productivity, operability, collaboration, and multi-functionality. It’s robust design and paper handling capability enables reliable performance at 65 to 45 prints per minute. Equipped with a large-capacity, high-speed Dual Scan Document Feeder (DSDF).The bizhub 658e_558e_458e ensures the highest document feeding speed (240 ipm – Duplex) and precision in its class of A3 monochrome devices. This high speed precision scanning when combined with “collaboration solutions” creates new value to customers in automating their workflows.
The new and enhanced paper cassette of bizhub 658e/558e/458e improves efficiency of paper feeding by allowing users to set non-standard size paper in the standard cassette, and reduces the time and effort involved in paper feeding when printing in large volumes or on non-standard paper size.
Furthermore, the bizhub 658e/558e/458e is designed to deliver a more convenient and seamless printing experience. It supports a wide variety of MFP features and enables strong connectivity with mobile devices, cloud service, and third-party business applications. Such intuitive and multifunctional operability allows the bizhub 658e_558e_458e to support all printing needs of a modern-day business and significantly enhance work efficiency and productivity.
2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India
Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and
multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.
The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry.
While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately
their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book
printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.
The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.
Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.
Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.
Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.
– Naresh Khanna
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