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Konica Minolta wins 2015 BLI PRO Awards trifecta

Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C1100
 

Konica Minolta has won an incredible three out of three BLI (Buyers Laboratory LLC) 2015 BLI PRO Awards, marking the third consecutive year in which Konica Minolta has received the awards.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRESS 1052 won Outstanding Monochrome Light-to Mid-Volume Production Device thanks to its impressive performance, 5-star rating for productivity and excellent media-handling capabilities.

“The bizhub PRESS 1052 offers an excellent blend of everything that’s most important in monochrome production environments,” said BLI’s Director of Laboratory Testing Pete Emory. “Not only is it highly productive, but it offers excellent media-handling capabilities and its input and output paper capacities are so high that it can run for about eight hours before requiring operator attention.”

Particularly noteworthy, Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRESS C1100 proved itself a strong competitor and has been awarded a 2015 BLI PRO award as Outstanding Colour Mid-Volume Production Device.

Clearly one of the best production devices in this class BLI has evaluated to date, the bizhub PRESS C1100 did not score below four and a half stars in any of the tested categories. “Usually we see models that excel in one or two areas, but fall short in others,” said David Sweetnam, head of BLI’s European Research and Lab Services. “The bizhub PRESS C1100’s colour consistency is among the best BLI has seen being one of just a few production units to earn BLI’s highest 5-star rating for colour consistency.”

Shaun Weir, owner of Kwik Kopy Bankstown, said: “Since installation of the bizhub PRESS C1100 our print production output has increased by 50%, due to the high productivity and registration accuracy the system supplies. The speed of printing with flawless reliability allows us to print on a wide range of media from NCR to 350gsm board with no problems.”

Impressive paper handling, strongp roductivity and a wide range of adjustments to help achieve optimum image quality have earned the tandem-engine bizhub PRESS 2250P BLI’s 2015 PRO award for Outstanding Monochrome Mid-to-High Volume Production Device.

Other strengths of the bizhub PRESS 2250P contributing to its PRO award include extensive job-building and advanced page-level programming capabilities; highly featured drag-and-drop hot folder functionality, an easy-to-use media catalogue; and Konica Minolta’s Tone Curve utility, which provides users with professional-grade custom grey programming capability.

“The BLI results have clearly shown that Konica Minolta identifies with our customers and has developed our production print systems to bring distinguished value to print production,” said Grant Thomas, product marketing manager for Production Print at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia. “To be awarded three Production Print Awards for 2015 indicates that Konica Minolta’s research and development is always striving to reach higher levels of productivity and reliability with exceptional value for the benefit of print suppliers in the market.”

 
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