Konica Minolta, the name usually brings to mind their camera or their photographic materials. However, it is also one of the top players in the printing and ink manufacturing business. The lines below will take you through a brief history of the company and touch upon their all-new environment friendly polymerized toner.
Konicas Humble Beginnings
Like all other big names in the printing business Konica Minolta too has roots way back in the past and forayed into the printing business due to the potential of printers and inks in the market.
Rokusaburo Sugiura began selling photographic materials at his Tokyo apothecary in 1873 and laid the foundations for Konica. Minolta was founded in 1928 to initially manufacture cameras and then went on to pioneer technologies such as a latent image transfer system, the worlds first magnification and reduction photocopier and the worlds first photocopier to produce two-color images in a single pass.
Konica Minolta gave its share of firsts to the world in the imaging and printing field. Among these was the world’s first double lens reflex camera in 1937, then the worlds first camera with a coated lens in 1946....