Konica Minolta bizhub MFPs Win BLI Line of the Year for the Third Consecutive Year
Tokyo – Feb.15, 2013
Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc. (Konica Minolta) announces that Buyers Laboratory Inc.*1 (BLI) has named Konica Minolta 2013 “Line of the Year” award winner in the A3/Ledger MFP*2 segment. Winning BLI’s most coveted award for the third consecutive year, Konica Minolta’s award-winning line of bizhub colour and monochrome MFPs also earned three additional “Pick*3″ awards for the bizhub C364, C454 and C554 A3 colour MFPs*4
Awarded annually to the manufacturer whose product line is determined to be the best overall in its category, the “Line of the Year” Award is based on the cumulative test results of all models tested in BLI’s rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation. The products are assessed for reliability, image quality, ease of use, productivity and a range of other criteria, including assumed daily processing capabilities across the line-up, through benchmark testing.
Also considered is the breadth of the manufacturer’s line-up and the manufacturer’s ability to provide quality products suitable to a broad spectrum of customer needs, from low-volume to high-volume.
“The Konica Minolta bizhub family proves exemplary year after year,” says George Mikolay, BLI’s senior product editor, A3/Copier MFPs. “Earning more ‘Pick’ awards than any other vendor for individual A3 MFPs, Konica Minolta’s reliability throughout its line is a true differentiator.”
Konica Minolta is proud to be recognised for these prestigious awards for three consecutive years, and is committed to further strengthening the line of bizhub products.
*1 Since 1961, BLI has been the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI’s US and UK laboratories, the company has been the leading source for extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products.
*2 Multi-functional Peripherals (Versatile computer peripherals with various functions such as faxing, printing, scanning, as well as copying.)
*3 Twice yearly, BLI’s experienced editorial and test technician teams review all of the equipment they’ve evaluated during the previous six months and present the prestigious “Pick of the Year” award to the devices that they determine are the “best of the best.”
*4 Some products may not be available in all areas.