An overview of the Konica Minolta bizhub brand and the 2026 lineup
Konica Minolta sells its office multifunction devices under the bizhub brand and its production presses under the AccurioPress brand. The bizhub line covers the workgroup tier and the enterprise A3 floor; AccurioPress covers print rooms and commercial print shops. The 2026 catalogue runs to 52 active SKUs across both lines, with the bizhub i-series carrying the corporate footprint and the AccurioPress C-series carrying the commercial print growth story. This overview walks through the brand history, the lineup organisation, the i-series chassis architecture, the production line, and the strategic moves Konica Minolta is making through the second half of the decade.
— Brand snapshot —
The brand story across one century and a half
Konica was founded in 1873 as a Tokyo pharmacy that branched into photographic plates. Minolta was founded in Osaka in 1928 as a camera maker. The two companies merged in 2003, retiring both consumer-camera brands and combining the corporate-imaging and office-printing businesses under a single corporate roof. The bizhub line predates the merger; it launched in 2003 with the bizhub 200 and 250 A3 mono multifunction units, and has carried the office line for every generation since. The story below tracks the bizhub line through five major chassis refreshes between 2003 and 2026.
bizhub launch
The first bizhub multifunction units launch in Europe, replacing the Konica 7000 and Minolta CF series.
Simitri toner
The Simitri HD polymerised toner enters production. Faster fusing, lower energy use per page.
C-series refresh
bizhub C258, C308, C368 launch with the IGEN-style multibeam laser and 10.1 inch panel.
i-series launch
The bizhub C250i and 360i series introduce the unified user interface and the embedded edge security stack.
AccurioPress C14000
The flagship production press launches at 140 ppm with eight-colour station support.
i-series refresh
Mid-cycle hardware refresh adds AI-assisted scan classification and the Workplace Hub integration on every unit.
How the 2026 lineup is organised
The 2026 catalogue runs five families. The strip below shows them in volume order, from the entry workgroup C-series through to the AccurioPress production tier. Spanish offices typically land inside the core i-series tier; AccurioPress shows up in commercial print rooms and large in-house production departments.
bizhub C-Lite
bizhub i (core)
bizhub i (upper)
AccurioPrint
AccurioPress
What the i-series chassis adds to the office line
Five chassis decisions that separate i from the older C-series
The i-series, launched in 2019 and refreshed for 2026, is the chassis a Spanish buyer will see on every modern bizhub quote. Five engineering decisions separate the i-series from the C-series it replaced.
- A 10.1 inch panel running a unified UI shared with the AccurioPress production line. The same gestures and the same screens at every tier.
- An embedded edge security stack covering Bitdefender malware scanning of scanned files, McAfee firmware integrity, and Trellix endpoint monitoring.
- The Simitri V chemical polymerised toner, with a 12 percent reduction in fuser temperature versus Simitri HD. Lower energy use and faster first-page-out.
- A dual-pass DADF at 240 ipm, replacing the single-pass 120 ipm DADF on the C-series.
- The Workplace Hub integration, the Konica Minolta edge IT platform that turns the device into a small office server for backup, security, and file sync.
Reading a bizhub model number
The bizhub naming convention has held steady since the i-series launch. The model number prints as a single string with the speed digits followed by a series indicator and a chassis suffix. The table below covers the four reading rules across the i-series catalogue.
| Position | Meaning | Reading rule | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefix | Family | bizhub for office, AccurioPress for production | bizhub or AccurioPress |
| C indicator | Colour or mono | C present for colour; no C for mono | bizhub C250i vs bizhub 360i |
| Speed digits | Three digits | First two digits indicate the speed band (25, 30, 36, 45, 55, 65, 75) | 250 = 25 ppm · 650 = 65 ppm |
| Suffix | Chassis generation | i = 2019 i-series · no i = older C-series | i = current generation |
The strategic priorities through 2026
Workplace Hub edge IT
The bet that the MFP becomes the central edge device for small office IT. Backup, security, and file sync run on the device chassis. Konica Minolta sees Workplace Hub as the differentiator that pulls bizhub out of pure printer competition.
AccurioPress production growth
The production line has grown faster than the office line for four consecutive years. The C14000 flagship and the upcoming inkjet roadmap target the light commercial print segment held by Xerox and Canon.
AI-assisted document handling
The 2026 refresh embeds AI classification on the panel itself. Scanned invoices are recognised, line items extracted, and routed to the ECM without operator selection. The capability ships on every i-series unit from January 2026.
Carbon reporting at device level
Spanish public sector tenders increasingly require carbon footprint data per device. Konica Minolta publishes per-page CO2 figures on the bizhub i datasheets and ships the data into Dispatcher Suite for fleet reporting.
Where bizhub sits against the rest of the Japanese majors
In the Spanish office market the bizhub line competes head-to-head with Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE, Ricoh IM C-series, Xerox AltaLink, and Kyocera TASKalfa. Konica Minolta differentiates on three axes: the Workplace Hub edge IT story, the AccurioPress production presence that pulls into the office conversation, and the historical strength on colour calibration carried over from the consumer-camera heritage. The brand sits in the second tier on standard CPC (Kyocera holds the cost edge through the long-life drum), in the top tier on production capability (joint leader with Xerox), and in the top tier on colour accuracy on photo-grade prints (joint leader with Canon).
For Spanish buyers comparing bizhub against an immediate rival, the most useful follow-up is the i-series versus C-series comparison, which covers the upgrade path on existing leases. For buyers heading into the production tier, the AccurioPress series guide covers the C7100 through C14000 production lineup. For ongoing fleet owners, the J1 and J2 paper jam code decoder covers the service ticket category that drives most operator interactions.