What Konica Minolta has achieved with a fourth consecutive “line of the year” win is unprecedented. The fact that year after year Konica Minolta continues to surpass the competition is a testament to the sustained quality of its A3 line.
WHY KONICA MINOLTA IS RATED THE BEST OF THE BEST
“ What it boils down to with Konica Minolta is consistency,” says George Mikolay, BLI Senior Product Editor for A3/Copier MFPs. “No other vendor brings the same high level of performance across its product line to the same degree.” In BLI’s rigorous two-month laboratory evaluation, Konica Minolta’s bizhub® MFPs have proven again and again that performance matters. BLI technicians have praised these MFPs for their superiority in many areas—scan speeds, print quality, color consistency and simplicity of operation. We’ve also won BLI recognition in these other important categories:
• 19 “Pick of the Year” business color products, ranging in speed from 21 ppm to 80 ppm.
• 9 “Pick of the Year” monochrome products, ranging in speed from 21 ppm to 90 ppm.
• 9 “Outstanding Achievement” awards for innovative design since 2006, including essential areas such as security, print drivers, control panel design and energy efficiency.
• Industry Design Firsts: Konica Minolta was among the first vendors to offer hard drive overwrite as a standard security capability, provide optional biometric authentication, and create a customizable print driver that lets each user bring up the functions they use most on one tab.
• Bright, Consistent Color Output is yet another differentiator for Konica Minolta. “All of Konica Minolta’s tested color devices received high marks for both business graphics and photographic images, producing bright, saturated color, natural flesh tones and smooth overall output.”
SOLUTIONS “LINE OF THE YEAR”— FIRST-TIME WINNER IN A NEW BLI CATEGORY
In 2012, Konica Minolta became the first winner of BLI’s award for “Solutions Line of the Year” for a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that make us a trusted partner for customers who need a complete end-to-end document solution. Further expanding the capabilities of our outstanding product line is bizhub Extended Solution Technology (bEST), which allows Konica Minolta to provide seamless integration with self-developed and industry-standard solutions to help control costs, heighten security and streamline the process of capturing, routing and managing documents:
• PageScope® Enterprise Suite 2.1, an integrated toolset to help customers monitor and manage output devices on their network, track and reduce print costs, increase document security and more.
• Unity Document Suite, a versatile document management and format conversion solution that sends, converts, recognizes and archives documents to a variety of back-end systems.
• Universal Print Drivers, a free UPD that increases print productivity and reduces administrative costs by providing a single printer driver solution for all devices.
• Seamless Software Interface: other partner solutions available for Konica Minolta A3 MFPs include Equitrac Office, Equitrac Express, Print Audit 6, NSi AutoStore, Nuance eCopy ShareScan, Nuance eCopy PDF Pro Office
and Fiery VUE.
