Sydney, Australia – July 6, 2010 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced a joint enterprise IP fax software solution for the bizhub Multi-Function Devices (MFDs).

The Konica Minolta Fax Connector consolidates all fax services within an enterprise, providing convenient access to fax services on the same device used for printing, scanning and copying Konica Minolta bizhubs.

MESSAGEmanager IP Fax software enables users of MFDs, E-mail, Desktop, CRM and ERP applications to send and receive facsimiles over IP networks.

MESSAGEmanager integrates with all popular IP Telephony systems and runs in a virtual environment.

Organisations still rely on fax for important business communications, and continue to send and receive billions of pages of fax each year. Fax is inexpensive, reliable, virus-free and legally binding, but finding efficient and effective ways of managing it is often a business challenge. The Konica Minolta Fax Connector provides a simple solution for organisations to centralise fax administration and drastically reduce communication costs.

“The Konica Minolta Fax Connector enables organisations to cut communication costs by replacing multiple phone lines, modems and fax servers and associated support contracts and supplies with IP FAX Software,” said Ivor Livingston, MESSAGEmanager Solutions CEO. “And by shifting fax traffic to IP networks organisations can reduce fax transmission costs by up to 40%.”

The Fax Connector, developed jointly by MESSAGEmanager Solutions and Konica Minolta logs and archives all sent and received messages in a SQL database and protects sensitive information by delivering incoming faxes directly to user’s mailboxes.

“We’re excited to add the MESSAGEmanager Konica Minolta Fax Connector to our bizhub product line. This has been integrated into our panel and our devices are the only ones in the market with this exciting technology*,” said Kylie Timmins, National Software Product Manager, Client Solutions Group, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia.