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INDUSTRY OPINION

Every Challenge is an

Opportunity As told to Sujith Gopinath

are still growing in that
segment. We are currently
overall number three and
number two in some of
the segments in colour
printing. But Konica
Minolta, as a brand, is
comparatively new, being
less that 10 years old. So if
we are at that position, it is
a significant achievement.
In production printing, for
the last five years, we have
been number one. So that is
a very important strength
of Konica Minolta as a
brand.
With strong competition
around, how do you plan
to achieve your targets?
The more the competition,
the better. So we have more
customers, more people
going to customers and as
we grow, everybody grows;
as the market grows,
everybody grows. So we
The Konica Minolta team at CEIF 2018 see this as an opportunity
to prove the capabilities of Konica
anish Gupta, DGM IP & PP marketing, Konica Minolta India, Minolta more against our competition. So
elaborated the strategies of the company in a chat with Smart it is growth for everybody in the growing
market.
MPhotography at the CEIF 2018. Excerpts...
Could you elaborate on the recent
trends that you have witnessed in
How was 2017 for Fujifilm in India and complete solutions right from pre-press photo printing?
what are the expectations for 2018? to printing, we have a couple of products In the photo side, on the higher end, what
Three quarters have been good. One going from entry level production to we have seen is that people are looking
or two months were affected due to very high level production printing. Our at more automation, and ways to reduce
GST implementation. But in spite of machines can print up to B2+ size. Then the file preparation time, printing and
that, it has been good so far. We have we also have solutions for post-press. post printing activities. Maybe more than
big expectations for 2018. The market We can do spot UV and digital foiling. printed output, people are also looking at
is growing, not only in photo, but in We have displayed the samples in our providing facilities like augmented reality
other segments also, digital printing is stall in CEIF 2018. Those are printed or web experience of those same images,
growing. We are very hopeful of at least on AccurioJet KM1 and finished on MGI so that they are more connected towards
double digit growth. That is what we are JETvarnish. Then we are also entering the images they have taken. And the
end customers keep remembering the
into label printing. So those are some
Smart Photography February 2018 What will be your business strategies of the segments, we as a company are service provider for that. On the lower
internally targeting.
end, RGB printing is getting obsolete.
getting into, besides photo.
for 2018?
More and more people are adopting the
How about consumer printing?
We are surely going to expand our
new toner technology. So we have installs
72 product portfolio. We currently have Our internal figures show that we in B, C and D-class towns also. So that is
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