BLI Grants the MFP Line of the Year Award to Konica Minolta

Since one needs to have some way of knowing what digital imaging services and devices are best in class, Buyers Lab periodically provides testing services, and it seems that a certain manufacturer of business color products just earned the MFP Line of the Year award.

MFP Line of the Year is the most coveted award that BPL can offer and the sixth so-called 'Pick' that Konica Minolta won over the past year.

This prize is awarded once a year to OEMs and is granted after a two-month laboratory evaluation of all models tested in BPL's labs.

Basically, the goal is to determine which lineup is the best in its category in terms of image quality, reliability, scanning, ease of use, connectivity and overall value.

Konica Minolta earned the latest award for its business color multifunctional products, which excelled at ease of use and quality, as well as reliability, those being what end-users are most interested in.

“Color print quality is a big differentiator for Konica Minolta,” said BLI Manager of Laboratory Testing Pete Emory.

“Unlike the majority of business color models we test, Konica Minolta’s products maintain extremely good and consistent output from start to finish over the course of our high-volume tests. So much so that if I need to output a long-run job containing color elements on a business color device, I’d choose these Konica Minolta engines nearly every time.”

“Time and again, Konica Minolta’s line has proven itself in the areas that matter most to end users—reliability, ease of use, productivity and image quality,” said George Mikolay, senior product editor, A3/Copier MFPs.

“With outstanding performances in these key areas, along with attractive pricing and robust feature sets across its color and monochrome lines, it became readily apparent that Konica Minolta is the vendor to beat for 2011,” he added.

Konica Minolta also earned 'Picks' for its monochrome products, most notably for their results under the real-world job stream test. Their biggest asset is the productivity when producing single and double-sided documents, though support for third-party software also helped.