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Tokyo (May 16, 2013) - Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) will be unveiling for the first time a new inkjet textile printer, the Nassenger PRO120, at ShanghaiTex 2013, an international textile and garment machinery exhibition to be held at Shanghai, China, from June 10 through June 13. 

Konica Minolta is pleased to introduce the bizhub C554e series to its award-winning bizhub range. The new e series features a number of new and improved multi-touch functionalities as well as enhanced web browser capabilities, which offer a rich and intuitive user experience when using external software applications that are accessed via the MFP user interface.

The expanded multi-touch functionality now supports swiping from one menu screen to another, swiping from one function to another, drag and drop to easily move and rearrange thumbnail pages of a file, pinch in and out to enlarge and reduce scanned images in the preview screens and a rotation feature that allows you to move an image to the desired angle. 

Tokyo (April 8, 2013) - Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced that the company breaks ground on its new R&D building (SKT) in Hachioji, Tokyo.

Since 1963 Konica Minolta Tokyo Site Hachioji (Tokyo Site) has played an important role as an epicenter of cutting-edge laboratories, fostering a number of proprietary core technologies. With the addition of the SKT, Tokyo Site will house more than 3,000 employees and become a major driving force in Konica Minolta's research and development efforts. In the ever-changing business landscape, only innovations that bring out "new value" to improve quality of life and society can drive "strong growth" of the company. The new SKT is positioned as vital investment for the future of the Konica Minolta Group to enhance its innovative powers and skills in creating new values. The construction starts by the end of April 2013 and will complete in April 2014.

Tokyo (February 18, 2013) - Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. (Konica Minolta) is pleased to announce that it has started offering an updated version of the "PageScope Mobile" (Ver. 2.0) application for Android worldwide, to work with Konica Minolta MFP*1 "bizhub" (bizhub) through Google Play free of charge.

"PageScope Mobile for Android", launched in April 2012, has received high reputation among business users worldwide as an application that connects Android devices with the bizhub to wirelessly print documents, e-mails and web pages held on the Android devices. Also, it enables users to initiate bizhub's scan job from mobile devices to save and print documents and pictures.

This version upgrade enables the "PageScope Mobile for Android" app to be connected with external cloud services such as Google Drive*2 or Dropbox*3 in response to the growing needs of mobile users.

bli-2013-awardJanuary 30, 2013 - Wokingham (UK) - For the third consecutive year, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH has won Buyers Laboratory LLC's (BLI's) most coveted award—A3 MFP Line of the Year. Once each year, Buyers Lab, the leading global provider of information and testing services to the document-imaging industry, acknowledges the vendors whose product lines are determined to be the best overall in their respective categories based on the cumulative results of models tested in BLI's rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation.

By assessing reliability, image quality, ease of use, productivity and a range of other criteria, the tests reveal to customers the products that deliver the best value and performance. Also considered are the breadth of the vendor's line and its ability to provide quality products suitable to a broad spectrum of customer needs, from low-volume to high-volume.

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