Konica Minolta Wins Three 2015 BLI PRO Awards

Konica Minolta Wins Three 2015 BLI PRO Awards, Is Named a Winner for Third Year Running

Konica Minolta has won three BLI (Buyers Laboratory LLC) 2015 BLI PRO Awards, marking the third consecutive year in which Konica Minolta has received awards from BLI, the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the document imaging industry.

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

Of the device, BLI’s Director of Laboratory Testing Pete Emory said, “It offers an excellent blend of everything that’s most important in monochrome production environments. Not only is it highly productive, 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.”

Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRESS C1100 also proved a strong competitor and was awarded a 2015 BLI PRO award as Outstanding Colour Mid-Volume Production Device.

One of the best production devices in this class BLI has evaluated to date, the bizhub PRESS C1100 did not score below a 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 five-star rating for colour consistency.”

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

Other strengths of the bizhub PRESS 2250P that contributed to the 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 Warwick Beban, CEO of Konica Minolta in New Zealand. “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.”

About BLI’s PRO Awards
In the highly complex world of production print, choosing the most suitable device is a tough task for buyers. Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the document imaging industry, makes the task easier with its unmatched expertise in evaluating devices, gained over the past 50-plus years. The PRO awards go to the best performers in BLI’s production field tests, which shed light on how these devices perform in the real world, which is often a far cry from what a brochure might lead people to believe.

BLI’s field evaluations entail three full days of intensive testing during which tens of thousands of impressions are printed—from 30,000 to more than 150,000 depending on the model. Devices are tested for productivity with coated and uncoated media in a wide range of weights and sizes and using various finishing options to simulate a wide variety of job scenarios. BLI technicians also evaluate image quality, including production of halftones, text and fine lines; density levels and variations; and colour drift over the course of a 1,000-page print run. In addition, BLI assesses media-handling capabilities and ease of use for setting up, submitting and managing jobs; loading paper and toner; switching out operator-replaceable components; and removing misfeeds.

Having generated tens of millions of impressions on production devices from the leading vendors over several years—both in the lab and in the field—BLI’s production tests reveal what separates the best from the rest. It is the best that BLI recognizes with its annual PRO Awards.

About Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions New Zealand Limited is a market leader in the provision of document management and print solutions, having operated in New Zealand for over 39 years; as a company it is 90 percent owned by CSG headquartered in Brisbane, Australia and ten per cent by Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

CSG is one of Australia’s leading business services companies providing end to end integrated technology solutions in all major Australian markets. CSG is the largest independent document solutions provider in Australia. CSG has significant expertise in the provision of integrated technology solutions to business and government.

Konica Minolta New Zealand has the full support of Konica Minolta Business Technologies in Japan, as part of a long term joint venture relationship that ensures exclusive distribution and support of Konica Minolta products and services to the New Zealand market. This connection gives us access to world-acclaimed solutions, research and development, while still allowing us to service and support our customers with an award-winning local service team.

Our goal is to be regarded as the premium brand in the market, adding value through the provision of tailored document solutions and affordable colour; already we are a market leader in solutions integration, office colour, production print and black and white printer/copiers.

In addition to our connection with Konica Minolta in Japan, we have long-standing partnerships with other international technology leaders such as Hewlett Packard, Monitor, Pitney Bowes, Brother, Objectif Lune and Kofax. In fact, we have the most extensive hardware and software range in New Zealand.

CSG Ltd (ASX:CSV) is a public Australian and New Zealand print management company that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company has significant print and managed print services capabilities in Australia and print services in New Zealand. Konica Minolta Business Solutions New Zealand is a subsidiary of CSG Ltd.

www.csg.com.au

ENDS

© Scoop Media