Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Konica Minolta) is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Unparalleled advances in security, print quality and network integration are brought together via the company’s award-winning lines of Bizhub multifunctional products (MFPs), Bizhub PRO digital presses, Magicolor color printers and Pagepro monochrome network line of printers. Additionally, Konica Minolta offers advanced software applications, wide-format printers, microform digital imaging systems and scanning systems for specialized applications.

As the traditional MFP marketplace continues to see pricing pressure due to competition and consolidation, organizations are forced to find new revenue and profit outlets. The industry’s conventional sales approach revolves around the purchase of new hardware. Given today’s economic climate, it is now incumbent for the industry to find a strategic approach tailored to the unique needs of today’s customers, and that’s where Konica Minolta’s approach is taking hold. As the old saying goes, as one door closes, another opens. Managed print services (MPS) – the latest buzzword in the MFP industry – represents a significant sea of change in this regard.

Konica Minolta’s optimized print services (OPS) is a fully-customized solution that will assess your document and print environment, optimize your document workflow, and reduce maintenance costs to improve your document output. This OPS solution, coupled with Corporate United’s strategic sourcing initiatives, puts you in control of the savings you desire to drive in your organization. Konica Minolta can help provide the keys to helping you drive those savings without being a drain on your resources.

Two basic strategies can be taken with managed print service programs: 1) optimize, then manage or 2) manage, then optimize. Konica Minolta recommends the latter. This surprisingly subtle difference in their approach to managed print services means they are always looking out for their customers’ best interests by leveraging current hardware to the best of their ability. Konica Minolta wants Corporate United members to spend differently by taking the approach that best meets their needs and leverages their previous investment, which will ultimately save the member money.

Konica Minolta and Corporate United’s OPS program allows you to customize a total solution for Konica Minolta MFPs and printers, as well as other OEM printers, by choosing an array of support options that meet the specific needs of your business: supplies, recycling, support, service, fleet management (including at multiple sites) and status reporting. Optimized print services can do it all – and do it better.

• 23 percent average overall cost savings

• 40 percent reduction in IT help desk calls

• 25 percent cost reduction in consumables

• 20 percent cost reduction in unscheduled maintenance

• 10 percent cost reduction in installation and upgrades

• 5 percent cost reduction in acquisition

These savings will insure that your output devices do not steal from your bottom line, allowing you to become more competitive in your core business.

With optimized print services, your IT staff will have more time to improve network productivity and your help desk will benefit from fewer calls relating to print problems.

OPS streamlines your accounts payable process into one contract by creating a single source for all of your consumables, support, and service. Through Konica Minolta’s OPS program, your company has one affordable and predictable monthly payment that allows you to view total printing costs and proactively budget for printing expenses.

For more information on Konica Minolta’s OPS Program, please contact your Corporate United member development representative or call the corporate office at 440.895.9838.