Konica Minolta has won the coveted Buyer Laboratory (BLI) A3 MFP Line of the Year crown for the fourth straight year, a first in the BLI's 50 year history. To claim its official 'best-in-show', the digital print provider had its entire range subjected to two months of grueling laboratory evaluation by the BLI team, coming in top of the pack in all categories.
Regarded the world's leading independent analysts on document imaging devices and solutions for decades, the BLI cast its authoritative eye over Konica Minolta's full gamut of A3 colour and monochrome bizhub range. The judges racked up more than 1.5 million impressions in all, and scored high for consistently reliable imaging at top-tier speeds with standout quality. Steven Caldwell, national marketing manager, Konica Minolta Australia, accepted the record-breaking fourth consecutive win with all due praise to the people involved.
"We have won this prestigious title every year since 2011 thanks to our hardware's reliable excellence and the dedication of whole team," said Caldwell.
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Under the intense scrutiny of the BLI team, the overall reliability of the range was a key factor in its win and one of the most important qualities assessed by buyer in the market. According toe BLI's testing, at real-world usage volumes, it would collectively take five Konica Minolta devices before users would experience even a single misfeed a month. The brand's user-replaceable colour drums to maximise up-time also boosted the line's performance.
George Mikolay, BLI's senior product editor for A3 MFPs, said, "What it boils down to with Konica Minolta is consistency. Whereas competing lines may stand out in certain speed bands, or in either colour or black, Konica Minolta's engines stand out across the board - in reliability, ease of use and image quality - in virtually all speed bands in both colour and black. No other vendor brings the same quality or performance across its product line to the same degree."
The colour line was also found to clock in scan speeds among the fastest in their respective groups, as well as delivering bright, saturated colour, natural flesh tones and smooth overall output.