A company profile: Konica-Minolta
Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese company that is the producer of various difference kinds of office equipment. They also manufacture medical imaging, graphic imaging, optical and measuring devices. This company has offices throughout Japan, but its main one is located in Tokyo. Konica-Minolta has a United States branch located in Ramsey, New Jersey. The current President of this company is Masatoshi Matsuzaki. This company employees close to 40,000.00 people worldwide. This company was founded in August of 2003, when the Japanese companies Konica and Minolta merged together. In January of 2006, this company citing exorbitant losses, relinquished its manufacturing of cameras, and turned that function over to Sony. Konica-Minolta also elected to cease producing photo imaging in March of 2007. However the company continues to make strides, expanding their productions, to including other parts of the world, now including South Africa. More information about Konica-Minolta’s business acquisitions and holdings and products, can be found at Wikipedia.
Prior to the merger of Konica and Minolta, the second of these companies, Minolta has a very lengthy history in the production of all types of cameras. Together Konica-Minolta has developed state of the art, exceptional high performing color laser printers. The Magicolor series of printers employs a certain type of toner technique that was passed down to Konica-Minolta by, QMS/Qume. The printers they produce are known as the world’s “smallest” printer. Another model, that is extremely efficient and exceptional is the Magicolor 2430DL this is the specific printer that is known as the world’s smallest. This printer is noted for its unique ability to implement direct output from various digital cameras, using the technology of their other products such as, PictBridge and EXlFII Print Order Management technological appliances, with the use of a USB. The various models in the Magicolor models of printers, can address the needs of a small home office, to midsized offices, to large corporate printing needs.