Sharp Corporation's digital MFPs have been awarded the prestigious Line of the Year Award 2007 by Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), a New Jersey-based independent evaluation organization for business-use office equipment. This award is given annually to the company with the best product line. Five Sharp digital MFPs also received the Pick of the Year Awards Autumn 2007. These Sharp products were given high marks for their basic performance in the areas of reliability, multi-task performance, and operability, and also for their network-supporting functions.
The winning products started to become available worldwide in January of 2007. The MFPs are compatible with Sharp's unique Open Systems Architecture (Sharp OSA), which has also been given rave reviews. With Sharp OSA, it only requires a small amount of time to customize the operation panel and set-up connections with external applications. This allows users to easily integrate their Sharp digital MFP into their office workflow according to their specific needs.
Sharp looks forward to a continued rise in customer satisfaction as it strives to take product performance to the next level and strengthen its approach to production-oriented document solutions.
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Line of the Year Award 2007
This is an annual award given to the company with the best product line. This is Sharp's second year in a row to receive this honor after being named Color MFP Line of the Year 2006. Sharp received acclaim for its whole product line including both color and monochrome models and also for its high-speed digital MFP (model MX-M1100) that has an output capability of 110 ppm.
Pick of the Year Awards Autumn 2007
1.Explanation of the Award
These awards are given twice a year, for the products BLI tested in the preceding six months. BLI categorizes MFPs according to their printing speed and does an overall evaluation of them in basic performance (reliability, multi-task performance, and outstanding operability) and in other areas such as network-supporting functions.
These awards mark Sharp's second win in a row after two digital MFPs (models MX-M950 and MX-M850) won Pick of the Year Awards Spring 2007.
2.Award Categories
Segment 4 (41 to 69 ppm), 5 (70 to 90 ppm), and 6 (91 ppm and above)
(monochrome digital MFP category)
3.Winning Models
Five digital MFPs (models MX-M450U/M450N, MX-M700U/M700N, and MX-M1100)
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BLI: Buyers Laboratory Inc. is a highly respected independent evaluation organization that has been rating business-use office equipment for more than 45 years. BLI publishes the industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, based on months of exhaustive in-house testing. The company's databases covering more than 10,000 copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products have a long-standing reputation for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete source for information on specifications, pricing, and evaluation. |
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