Barun Maiti, who hails from Midnapore in West Bengal and owner of HS Laxmi Graphic Innovation, said he was enchanted by the process of printing since his childhood and joined a printing firm in Gujarat to pursue his interest in the field. He then set up his own printing firm in Kolkata, catering to the sari and hosiery brands in the city. The jobs were outsoured to printing firms in Gujarat.

Managing the activities and logistics from Gujarat was challenging. This compelled him to look for a suitable end-to-end printing solution, which could not only ease his company’s burden of outsourcing printing jobs, but also reduce the mounting operating expenditures.

“I felt that shorter-run jobs and variable jobs were increasing by the day and with cutthroat competition and fixed deadlines, digital was the best way to move forward,” Maiti said. Thus, he set up a base in this domain and deployed the Konica Minolta 1085, owing to its printing quality, high productivity and ability to perform high volume printing operations of diverse formats.

“Our dependency on outsourcing operations has been reduced and local service support is also impressive. It was also easier to trust a brand where communication levels were open and supportive,’’ Maiti added.

The Bizhub Press C1085 also boasts of ‘exact colour,’ a high precision colour management software and 3D collaboration to ensure minimal colour differences in environments where colour fluctuations are very easy to manage.

‘’Digitally printed sheet are growing and will continue to grow. Most of the jobs these days are shifting from long runs to short runs with customer opting for variable data printing. However, the need has also risen for large size digital presses going forward,’’ concluded Maiti.

Yuji Nakata of Konica Minolta Business Solutions said, “Enabling business expansion to our esteemed customers is our utmost priority. We are extremely happy over the deployment of our industry leading Bizhub Press C1085, which enables high volume and varied printing outputs by HS Laxmi Graphic Innovation. Our skilled workforce will continue to strengthen the company’s product portfolio in the digital domain in years to come.’’

Konica Minolta India launched the machine in 2015 and has more than 150 installations so far.