Press release Konica Minolta wins BLI´s 2014 PRO Award Langenhagen/Germany, November 20, 2013 For the second time Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe (Konica Minolta) has won Buyers Laboratory LLC’s (BLI’s) coveted BLI PRO Award. Konica Minolta´s bizhub PRESS 1250/1250P was the only model in its class to have earned BLI´s 5-star rating for productivity and has therefore won the 2014 PRO award for “Outstanding Monochrome Light- to Mid-Volume Production Device”. David Sweetnam, head of BLI’s European Lab and Research Services called the bizhub PRESS 1250 “a true production workhorse” with “throughput speeds among the fastest tested to date on heavy-grade stocks and better than those of competitors with A3 and SRA3 media.”
“We are very proud that our continuous efforts to add substantial value to our customers’ businesses are gaining international recognition” says Ines Wennemann, product manager in the production printing division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. After having won the BLI PRO Award already last year for our bizhub PRESS C7000, gaining first place at the BLI PRO awards again now for our monochrome flagship bizhub PRESS 1250/1250P is a big achievement for us and proves our leading position in the production printing industry as well as the outstanding quality of our systems and their reliability.” Highly customizable from base to full configuration, the bizhub PRESS 1250 can be tailored to the specific needs of various environments. The control panel is easy to master, and provides detailed information on device status, consumables and paper levels, RIP resources and the job queue. And unlike with some competitors, the custom media catalogue is fully integrated with the print driver. Another plus for operators is the Scheduler feature, which uses colour coding to indicate to operators when certain paper types need to be replenished. “The bizhub PRESS 1250’s outstanding productivity and media handling, along with
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the wealth of feedback it provides, ensure that jobs will not only get done quickly, but with minimal interruptions,” added Sweetnam. “Plus, a new tandem print ability further boosts productivity by allowing a job to be split across two devices.”
About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan, forming part of its Business Technologies business area. As a leading global service provider in the field of IT- and document processes as well as digital production printing solutions the company excels in service-led business consulting, implementation and management and provides a range of world-leading printing systems and solutions. In this context, Konica Minolta’s Optimized Print Services concept (OPS) combines consultancy, hardware, software implementation, and operation in order to enhance business process efficiency and cost-effectiveness. To support customers optimally with powerful and sustainable solutions, technology leader Konica Minolta continuously invests in research and development work and regularly sets new standards. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 70 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). With over 30,600 employees around the world (as of June 2012), Konica Minolta’s Business Technologies business area earned net sales of over EUR 5.4 billion in financial year 2012/13.
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Contact Konica Minolta Silke Zühlke Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Phone: +49 (0)511 7404-5604 silke.zuehlke@konicaminolta.eu
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