Konica Minolta printers have won high honours for three of its printers at the Buyers Laboratory awards for the third year in a row.
The colour bizhub Press C1100, and monochrome printers bizhub Press 1052 and bizhub Press 2250P sealed the manufacturer’s three BLI Awards from three entries.
The C1100 won for outstanding colour mid-volume production device, the bizhub Press 1052 for outstanding light to mid volume production device, and bizhub Press 2250P picked up outstanding monochrome mid to high volume production device.
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The three printers drew high praise from judges, with David Sweetnam singling out the C1100’s colour consistency.
Judge Pete Emory talked up the 1052’s productivity and media handling capabilities. “It offers a blend of everything that is most important in monochrome production environments,” he says.
“It is highly productive, offers media-handling capabilities and its input and output paper capacities are so high it can run for about eight hours before requiring operator attention.”
Judges similarly commented on the 2250P, praising its paper handling, productivity and range of adjustments to improve image quality.
The printer features job building and page-level programming capabilities, drag and drop hot folders, media catalogue and tone curve grey programming.
Konica Minolta production print marketing manager Grant Thomas says listening to customers has paid off in developing the machines.
“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 value for printers,” he says.
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Locally, Kwik Kopy Bankstown owner Shaun Weir says his bizhub Press C1100 has doubled the copy shop’s output since its installation.
“This is due to the high productivity and registration accuracy the system supplies,” he says.
“The speed of printing with reliability allows us to print on a range of media from NCR to 350gsm board with no problems.”
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