

The 21st century has ushered in a new way of doing business — with digitized workflow, networked headquarters and branch offices, and IT integration of manufacturers, sellers, suppliers, and service personnel. How information moves through this network is of paramount importance to productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Another critical issue in the new digital era is security, because digitized information must be protected at every step of its creation and distribution. Business information is also migrating to color, because color communicates with greater impact. High-quality, low-cost color output enables more and more companies to produce marketing materials, production information, presentations, and reports in color, in-house, and on-demand. Customers count on Konica Minolta to help them understand, apply, and maximize the benefits of new technologies as well as cut costs for bottom-line benefits in a challenging economic climate.