Konica Minolta extends partnership with Production Print Direct

‘In the past many commercial printers have outsourced their labels requirements believing that it is too expensive or complicated to do in-house,’ commented Mike Ashforth, Production Print Direct’s managing director. ‘However, Konica Minolta’s range of digital label and packaging press solutions addresses this by delivering the flexibility of short run jobs with predictable and affordable costs.

‘Working together with Konica Minolta, we are able to provide highly cost-effective industrial print solutions that open up these opportunities to embrace label printing, enabling our customers to deliver a more diverse offering with attractive margins, with the flexibility and certainty of completing jobs in-house.’

Along with the digital presses Konica Minolta also offers full workflow which enable label printers to optimize their operations, accurately estimate job requirements/costs, and manage workloads more efficiently. These easy and ready to use systems also facilitate the introduction of variable data printing, QR codes and the ability to combine other processes with digital label printing.

‘The AccurioLabel portfolio delivers highly versatile and low-cost digital alternatives to Flexo, with a cost per linear meter and options for web-to-print which work exceptionally well for flexible quick turnaround jobs that our customers need,’ added Ashforth. ‘Working in close partnership with Konica Minolta, we offer the collaborative benefits of a respected manufacturer and local expert supplier to deliver market-leading label equipment and a fully tailored end-to-end solution.’

Production Print Direct, with its own knowledgeable and experienced manufacturer-trained and approved service team, is ideally placed to support customers throughout the M62 corridor and beyond, an area which encompasses a large percentage of the UK’s label and packaging producers.

‘We celebrated our first decade of business in April this year and we are proud to deliver a one-to-one service, with a dedicated service team and the flexibility to act as soon as our customers need assistance or support. We are very excited to be extending our winning partnership with Konica Minolta and to be supporting our existing and new customers with their label production needs,’ added Ashforth.

Jon Hiscock, head of production and industrial print at Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK), commented: ‘With an existing successful partnership as one of our Konica Minolta Accredited Production Print Partners in the north of England, Production Print Direct is perfectly placed to expand its offerings adding our industrial print accreditation and its product line up to its portfolio.

‘As print service providers look to see the potential and add digital labels capabilities to their portfolio, we have the perfect partnership to support them – from the powerful flexibility of our AccurioLabel range, to the exceptional embellishment potential of the AccurioShine 3600, and the packaging capabilities of the PKG 1300 Automated Digital Corrugated Press. This is perfect timing to further build upon our existing market penetration together by delivering digital labelling excellence.’