Konica Minolta Positioned as a Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide High-Speed Digital Label Printers

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Digital Label Printers 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US51812724e, August 2025).

The report notes, “The high-speed digital label printer market is undergoing the same type of digital transformation we have seen in other segments of the printing market, with a portion of the total label volume moving from analog to digital production based on digital printing's economic advantages for short runs. The demand for digital production is based on a move to shorter runs and on-demand production to impact consumer decisions and eliminate waste.”

According to the IDC MarketScape, “Over that time, Konica Minolta has placed more than 1,700 of its toner-based label presses, which have found a "sweet spot" in the digital label press market with its combination of quality and productivity.”

The report recognized Konica Minolta for the following strengths:

Konica Minolta offers ongoing business development support through the marketing assurance program, which helps print service providers identify and grow new into new markets.
The Konica Minolta AccurioLabel is a simple device, configurable with optional finishing for more automated production.
Konica Minolta offers its own IC-605 digital front end and partners to offer a Creo controller as an option for either the AccurioLabel 230 or AccurioLabel 400.
The AccurioLabel is a smaller device, requiring less of a footprint while maintaining robust production capabilities.The AccurioLabel presses offer low power consumption through Konica Minolta's advanced HDE toner, which lowers fusing temperature, also saving on energy costs

Toshitaka Uemura

Head of IP Business at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

“Our purpose is to empower better communication and a more sustainable society through the power of digital printing. By addressing our customers’ challenges — from shorter runs and tighter deadlines to the need for skilled labour and environmental responsibility — we continue to deliver innovations like the AccurioLabel 230 and AccurioLabel 400 that redefine what’s possible in digital label production. We believe being named a Leader by the IDC MarketScape reaffirms we're on the right track.”

Konica Minolta’s AccurioLabel 230 and AccurioLabel 400 presses are designed to meet these demands with exceptional productivity, precision, and energy efficiency. The AccurioLabel 400 delivers resolutions up to 3,600 x 2,400 dpi, supports white toner printing, and features low power consumption through Konica Minolta’s advanced HDE toner technology.

Toshitaka Uemura

Head of IP Business at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

“In the year that marks a decade since Konica Minolta entered the label market, we are as focused as ever on helping customers realise better communication and society through the power of digital printing. We are committed to helping solve the challenges of reduced volume per order, shorter lead times, shortage of skilled workers and sustainability. As such, we continue to engineer solutions that make digital production smarter and more accessible, so they embrace the ‘sweet spot’ in the digital label press market. With the AccurioLabel’s trusted performance and advanced design, we’re enabling printers to innovate faster and capture new business opportunities.”

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About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. With its unique expertise in imaging, data processing and data-based decision making, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers - small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises and public sector - and solves issues faced by society.
Konica Minolta delivers intelligent digital solutions for the digital workplace, streamlining print management, document and business workflows, IT services, and business intelligence to boost productivity, enhance security, and drive digital transformation. The company’s success in driving transformation is also confirmed by IDC, since the ‘IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print Transformation 2023 Vendor Assessment’ has named Konica Minolta a “Leader” in print transformation. Konica Minolta has been a Microsoft Global Managed Partner since 2021.
Konica Minolta's Igniting Print Possibilities offering helps printers, converters and brand owners maximize workflow automation to increase efficiency. The company delivers consultancy in all communication matters as well as top-of-the-line production, packaging as well as label printers. Its finishing devices create print products that stand out and create added value. Konica Minolta has established itself as the production printing market leader for more than a decade in Europe (InfoSource).
For an increasing number of organizations, success today is more than the narrow definition of financial prosperity – it also includes protecting the environment and having a positive impact on their workforce as well as the societies they are embedded in. With its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Konica Minolta has pledged to consistently pursue its sustainability and social responsibility goals. The company has been repeatedly recognized for its rich history of social contribution as well as for working towards achieving the SDGs throughout its business and supply chain.
For its remote services, Konica Minolta was awarded the prestigious ‘Buyers Lab (BLI) 2023-2024 Pacesetter Award in Remote Service for the Western European market’ from Keypoint Intelligence.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With more than 8,100 employees (as of March 31, 2025), Konica Minolta Europe earned net sales of over EUR 2.087 billion in financial year 2024/2025.
Worldwide, the company has over 35,600 employees and is operating in over 150 countries.
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