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Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging products and solutions, today announced its Spring 2009 “Outstanding Achievement Award” winners, with the honours going to Konica Minolta.
Robust Print Driver Customisation Earns Konica Minolta Honours
As the speed of doing business continues to accelerate and the need for greater work efficiency becomes more and more critical, Konica Minolta has been recognized by BLI for their innovative new MyTab printer driver design feature, which can save valuable time during printing.  This new benefit to business productivity and efficiency is available on the newly released bizhub 220, bizhub 280, bizhub 360, bizhub 452, bizhub C552, bizhub C652 and upcoming models set for release later this year.
While the ability to set up profiles for frequently used jobs has been available in print drivers for many years now, the MyTab feature on new Konica Minolta MFP print drivers allows users to customize an entire tab.
“We are all familiar to customizing the landing page of our Internet service provider, search engine or Facebook account to suit our personal needs, but up until now we have all had to work within the fixed restraints of print driver design, irrespective of our personal workflow requirements,” said BLI European Lab and Research Manager David Sweetnam.
“With MyTab, users are able to set up a single print driver tab and design it to have all the settings they need, including paper handling, finishing, image quality, watermarking, and more, thereby removing the clutter that is often confusing and unwanted. With MyTab, users can now take full advantage of the driver feature set with a minimum of fuss and reduce the risk of errors, as all required features can be viewed at a glance.”
About Buyers Laboratory
For 48 years, Buyers Lab (BLI) 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 of competitive intelligence for industry professionals on copiers, printers, fax machines, scanners, duplicators, wide-format devices and multifunctional products.
The company's databases cover over 12,000 products globally and have a long-standing reputation for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete source for specifications and side-by-side comparisons, all of which are available as part of bliQ, BLI’s Web-based encyclopedic resource. Subscribers also have access to BLI's renowned Lab Test Reports, First Look Reports, Solutions Reports, Environmental Reports, news articles and a complete library of manufacturer’s product literature, as well as valuable tools including a Product Configurator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
Buyers Lab also provides business consumers with How-To-Guides, a Needs Assessment Wizard and Free Vendor Quotes via its Buyers Lab Advisor Web site, as well as independent purchasing advice and consulting from its Buyers Alliance procurement experts. Business consumers and manufacturers can also select from 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) and software solutions and print media testing (including virgin and recycled papers). |