By George Mikolay, Senior Product Editor, A3/Copier MFPs, April 19, 2013
BLI recently visited Konica Minolta’s U.S. headquarters to present the company with BLI’s highest award, 2013 A3 MFP Line of the Year.
This marks the third consecutive year Konica Minolta has won the honor, and the accomplishment is almost unprecedented.
“In the 26-year history of the award, Konica Minolta is one of only two vendors to earn the award three years in a row, and it is the only vendor to do so in the past decade,” said BLI Managing Editor Daria Hoffman.
BLI tested nearly all of Konica Minolta’s line, both color and monochrome, with 12 Pick winners among them, which is a higher number than any other vendor, and 14 Highly Recommended products.
If you are operating a small business or a large business, printing and other office functions are daily tasks that don’t you don’t think twice about anymore. One thing that is sometimes overlooked is the fact that most of these office functions cost money. Although the cost associated with printing one sheet of paper are relatively low, printing a thousand sheets of paper can be quite expensive.
For many businesses, between all the day-to-day operations like meetings and other daily tasks, it’s hard to stop and think about the fundamentals that keep your office running. Things like a smooth running network and Internet connection, printers functioning at efficient levels, and documents being stored and routed securely are very important to your office as a whole. Management and staff often overlook these fundamentals as these parts of your office are typically running smoothly and have no cause for concern.
There are many terms that are thrown around in the copier and managed services industry that don’t necessarily mean anything to a business owner or the layperson. Although some of these terms may seem foreign, the term Print Management actually says something in the name that describes exactly its purpose or intent. Managing the printing in your office is a very important aspect of your daily business operations and business owners everywhere may be surprised by the cost associated with the paper that is used on a monthly basis.
There are plenty of reasons why a business would take the step in purchasing a Multifunction System for their office. Whether it is for the purpose of boosting efficiency and productivity in the office, or if it’s for consolidating much needed space, a multifunction system can contribute many benefits that a business can realize in a short amount of time. Companies typically realize that they have made a smart decision in investing in a Multifunction System shortly after it has been installed.
The success of your company can very well depend on the amount of work that your office is getting done or has the ability to get done in a given day or week. The amount of tasks that can be completed in a given day are directly tied to productivity levels. That is why it is very important that productivity levels are as high as they can be in your place of work. The formula for this is simple, the higher the productivity levels, the more your office is able to handle.
As what was once the future slowly turns into the present, we can expect technology to become more and more advanced. As a general rule, the advancement of technology is not partial to any particular area; therefore, we can readily assume that advancement in the field of data theft will mimic the advancement of data security. This simply means that each sector of technology in regard to data security is trying to stay one step ahead of the other. Identity thieves will be inventing new ways to steal important information or identities while programmers looking to thwart these thieves will invent better ways of preventing or protecting valuable data.