Inkjet & Digital Printing
Konica Minolta Receives Additional Key Awards from BLI
Monday 17. January 2011 - Outstanding Performance of bizhub Color and Monochrome MFPs Earns Seven Key Awards from Leading Industry Analyst
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta two additional industry awards to the five previously announced on January 12th.
BLI presented Konica Minolta with Winter 2011 “Pick” Awards recognizing the bizhub 20P Monochrome Printer as “Outstanding A4 Printer for Small Workgroups”, as well as awarded an “Outstanding Achievement” award to the bizhub 363 Monochrome MFP for Energy Efficiency in the A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP Category.
The twice-a-year “Picks” assess reliability in terms of the service and preventive maintenance calls required. Its comprehensive evaluation includes an assessment of copy and print quality, productivity, ease of use and economy, as well as connectivity issues such as feedback to workstations, administration utilities, print drivers, multitasking and scanning solutions.
As part of the environmental testing, BLI measures the energy consumed by document imaging products in all operating modes as well as in energy-save, idle and sleep modes. In addition to reporting on a range of other environmental related features such as runability with various grades of paper, the reports include a projected energy consumption and cost based on real-world usage for each product segment.
To recap a week of key industry awards, BLI recognized Konica Minolta with the following awards:
“Line of the Year” – A3/Ledger Color and Monochrome MFPs
bizhub 423 – “Pick” Award winner for “Outstanding 41- to 50-ppm A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP”
bizhub 363 – “Pick” Award winner for “Outstanding 31- to 40-ppm A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP”
bizhub 283 – “Pick” Award winner for “Outstanding 21- to 30-ppm A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP”
bizhub 223 – “Pick” Award winner for “Outstanding 21- to 30-ppm A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP”
bizhub 20P – “Pick” Award winner for “Outstanding A4 Printer for Small Workgroups”
bizhub 363 – “Outstanding Achievement” Award for Energy Efficiency in the A3/Ledger MFP Category
“Konica Minolta’s complete line of bizhub MFPs consistently performs well in our testing and the ‘Line of the Year’ award acknowledges the company’s market-leading performance and innovative technology,” said George Mikolay, Senior Product Editor, A3/Copier MFPs, Buyers Laboratory Inc. “The ‘Pick’ awards and Energy Efficiency recognition further demonstrate the exceptional capabilities that we have come to expect from the Konica Minolta name.”
“We are honored to be recognized by BLI for outstanding energy efficiency as it confirms that our commitment and focus on delivering green technologies and a healthy environment is working,” said Kevin Kern, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. “Our global organization takes great pride in Mr. Mikolay’s recognition earlier this week that ‘Konica Minolta is the vendor to beat for 2011.’ We will not rest with these awards; we will remain committed to the goal of ensuring that customers can count on Konica Minolta for industry-leading technology that meets their entire scope of digital printing needs.”