Buyers Lab, the global provider of information and testing services to the digital imaging industry, has announced that the winner of its most coveted award - “MFP Line of the Year” - is Konica Minolta.
The “Line of the Year” award is given once a year to the OEM whose product line is determined to be the best overall in its category, based on the cumulative test results of all models tested in a rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation.
Reliability, image quality, productivity, ease of use, scanning, a host of connectivity attributes and overall value are among the many deciding factors taken into consideration, as is the extent of the product line and its ability to provide quality products suitable to a broad spectrum of customer needs.
According to Andrew Griffith, product manager for office products at Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa, Konica Minolta has won more MFP “Picks” than any other vendor over the past year. The company has been awarded with six “Picks” for its business colour products, earning awards in almost every speed range, from 22ppm to 65ppm.
“Each model tested proved extremely reliable and offered strong productivity, good duplex copy and print, exceptional image quality and high marks for both business graphics and photographic images,” he explains. “Our monochrome models also received 'Picks' in virtually every speed range in monochrome from 22ppm to 75ppm, with six currently available monochrome 'Pick' winners, showing exceptional reliability and very good to excellent print productivity for producing sets of single- and double-sided documents.”
Both types of models were commended on competitive pricing, ease of use and comprehensive security measures, including standard hard drive overwriting.
“It is a great honour for Konica Minolta to have received this prestigious award from a leading industry voice such as BLI,” says Griffith. “The BLI Line of the Year award highlights our success and commitment to delivering industry-leading products that address and surpass the requirements of our customers of all sizes. As we move into in the new year, Konica Minolta remains committed to its global mission of ensuring that customers can count on us to meet all of their digital printing needs.”
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Konica Minolta South Africa
Konica Minolta South Africa, wholly owned by the Bidvest Group, stands at the forefront of business solution providers as the principal importer and distributor of the innovative and award-winning Konica Minolta range of bizhub digital multifunctional colour and black-and-white devices, laser printers, fax machines and business solutions, into South Africa as well as Namibia, Malawi, Botswana and Swaziland. Konica Minolta South Africa's head office is based in Johannesburg and its distribution network is supported by 14 branches and 43 dealerships. With an operational stance of consultative business partnering, the group provides clients with holistic document management solutions: through pre-sales analysis, audits to sales, installation, ongoing onsite technical and software management as well as the supply of spare parts and consumables.
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