Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) has extended its partnership with Production Print Direct to include its range of digital label and packaging printing technologies.
Production Print Direct is a service-led provider of equipment, software and services to the commercial print, direct mail and print for pay sector, specialising in Konica Minolta cut-sheet and roll-fed digital printing equipment and software. This has now been extended to include Konica Minolta’s Industrial Print technologies, a development which said to reflect the Burnley-based company’s commitment to supporting its customers across the north of England and Scotland, and more specifically as commercial printers look to diversify and enhance their market offering with digital label and package printing.
Production Print Direct managing director Mike Ashforth said, ‘In the past many commercial printers have outsourced their labels requirements believing that it is too expensive or complicated to do in-house. 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.’
He continued, ‘The AccurioLabel portfolio delivers highly versatile and low-cost digital alternatives to flexo, with a cost per linear metre and options for web-to-print which work exceptionally well for flexible quick turnaround jobs that our customers need. 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.
‘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.’
Jon Hiscock, head of production and industrial print at Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK), said, ‘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 label 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.’
