Account representative Trisha Kosak of Renfrew is working out of the Custom Printers building, while support staff is located in the national capital area.

Other Konica Minolta staff members include Greater Ottawa branch manager Ron Geerts and general sales manager Steve Finlay, who were in town recently to talk about their products.

In 2006, Konica Minolta sold its photographic assets to Sony Corporation when use of traditional photographic equipment was already in decline. Konica Minolta, whose major products include optical devices, copiers, LCD displays and medical equipment, calls itself an industry leader in business solutions, imaging technology and multi-function products.

Within Canada, the company’s focus is on high-end business technology, whose multi-functional equipment prints, copies, faxes and scans.

“One of our slogans is From Desktop to the Print Shop,” said Geerts.

“We’ve been in the area for a long time,” he added. “We just decided to invest and establish an office, and be more part of the community.”

Konica Minolta’s office equipment ranges in value from $500 to $200,000 for its soon-to-be introduced 2500 bizhub pro, which prints 250 black and white copies per minute.

Its office equipment includes the bizhub c6500 pro (or 65-page-per-minute, full-colour digital printer, copier and scanner) and bizhub 1050 pro (which produces 105 pages per minute in the production market.

Flagship products are the bizhub products, which include the C10 for desktop use or the C203 for a group office environment.  

The bizhub c6500 series was introduced in July 2008 at the prestigious Hokkaido Toyako Summit, where Konica Minolta hailed the C650 as a leading environmentally-conscious product because of its low-level emissions.

Visitors to the company’s grand opening in Renfrew on Thursday, Nov. 27 will be eligible for various prizes. The featured prizes are two tickets to a Canadian game at the 2008/09 Ottawa-based world junior hockey championships and a Team Canada hockey jersey.

The grand opening runs from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Members of the business community and public are welcome.