Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Europe) and Screen Graphic Solutions (Screen GA) have substantially elevated their cooperation in the digital commercial printing area to achieve seamless hybrid workflows and increase user-friendliness in both offset printing and digital printing. The two companies will further “improve efficiency, expand business opportunities and deliver new value in the commercial printing industry.” Konica Minolta has a competitive edge in variable digital presses, and aims to further open up the market in the digital commercial printing area. Screen GA offers an extensive line of high-speed variable digital presses and CTP systems, and has a competitive edge in integrated workflow systems (that combine CTP systems with digital presses to automate the printing process and eliminate the need for skilled operators). The two companies will enhance collaboration to further improve the value proposition for customers of the respective companies based on an open partner strategy by which each company further enhances its own competitive edge, while utilizing the other’s technologies and assets.