<p>Sydney, Australia – Wednesday 8 September, 2010 - Kyocera Mita, one of the world's leading document imaging companies, today announced that they have been recognized by BERTL, Inc. with Five Star, Exceptional ratings for their TASKalfa 300i, TASKalfa 420i and TASKalfa 520i black and white multifunctional devices (MFD) and selected as BLI’s 2010 Pick of the Year Winner – Outstanding Personal Monochrome Multifunction Printer for their FS-1128MFP. In addition Kyocera received BLI’s Recommended award for their FS-4020DN and FS-C5400DN printer models and awards from Beter Buys for Business. </p> <p>BERTL’s Five Star, Exceptional rating is reserved exclusively for devices that deliver an outstanding range of business-critical features and functions, are innovative, easy to use, well-designed and represent exceptional value for the money for their target base. </p> <p>The Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories Inc. (BERTL) is an independent testing laboratory whose purpose is to provide objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses on imaging devices and software solutions. </p> <p>BERTL analysts evaluated several hundred copiers, printers, fax, multifunctional, colour and production devices to identify the select group of devices that stand apart from the others. Kyocera’s TASKalfa monochrome MFDs earned recognition from BERTL for their ability to offer high productivity speeds, class-leading preventive maintenance (PM) schedules (300,000 for the 300i, 500,000 for the 420i/520i), and industry-leading memory capacity of 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard disk drive. Kyocera’s TASKalfa series received high marks for print and copy productivity, high image resolution of 600dpi for optimum image quality, extensive paper supply for the 300i (2,200 sheets) and 420i/520i (4,200 sheets), as well as document finishing and security features. </p>