Konica Minolta Wins 2009 BLI “Outstanding Achievement” Award for Energy Efficiency. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Pty Ltd (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta the BLI Spring 2009 “Outstanding Achievement” award for outstanding energy efficiency in the following categories:
Konica Minolta bizhub 362
31- to 40-ppm A3/Ledger Monochrome MFP
Konica Minolta bizhub C552 with Emperon Controller
41- to 50-ppm A3/Ledger Color MFP
Konica Minolta won “Outstanding Achievement” awards for the outstanding energy efficiency of two of its products. The bizhub C552 with Emperon controller, a winner in the 41- to 50-ppm Color MFP category, also offers faster than average tested recovery times from idle, energy-save and sleep modes, allowing users to save energy without losing productivity. In the 31- to 40-ppm Monochrome MFP category, the Konica Minolta bizhub 362 not only has lower than average projected annual energy consumption and cost, but also lower than average energy consumption in every single running and non-running mode. In addition, the bizhub 362 provides such “green” features as job review, proof mode and N-up.
“Earning recognition for the environmental performance of our award-winning colour and monochrome bizhub MFDs is testament of our ongoing commitment to being a leader in green technology efforts,” said David Procter, National Marketing Manager, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia. “Being acknowledged for this excellence represents our continued commitment to our customers and showcases more reasons why people can count on Konica Minolta not only for the most innovative technology, but also for setting environmental standards in the industry.”
About Buyers Laboratory
Since 1961, Buyers Lab has been the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI’s US and UK laboratories, the company has been the leading source for extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products.
The company’s databases cover over 10,000 products and have a long-standing reputation for being the industry’s most trustworthy and complete source for global competitive intelligence. They are available to BLI subscribers online via the company’s bliQ competitive information service. This encyclopedic resource also provides quick and easy access to BLI’s First Look Reports, Field Test Reports, Lab Test Reports, Solutions Reports, and BLI-produced articles.
In addition to the testing of office equipment for its subscribers, Buyers Lab provides consulting services to buyers and a vast array of confidential for-hire private testing services that include document imaging device beta and pre-launch testing, performance certification testing, consumables testing (such as toner, ink and photoconductors), software and solutions and print media testing (including virgin and recycled papers).
Article written by Konica Minolta – Document Solutions Australia, http://www.konicaminoltagc.com.au
