TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. EARNS FIVE AWARDS FROM BUYERS LABORATORY INC. INCLUDING THE PRESTIGIOUS “PICK OF THE YEAR”
Toshiba e-STUDIO™ MFPs Recognized for Outstanding Performance Throughout BLI’s Comprehensive Lab Test
IRVINE , California ( Sep 10, 2007 ) :
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) today announced that its e-STUDIO™3510c multifunction product (MFP) attained the coveted "Pick of the Year" award from leading independent office equipment testing lab, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI). The e-STUDIO3510c endured BLI's 50,000-impression durability lab test in the business color MFP category and emerged as a superior performer, earning the BLI "Pick" in the 41 pages-per-minute (PPM) to 50 PPM Segment 4 range. The e-STUDIO2500c/3500c/3510c and the e-STUDIO1101 also acquired "Highly Recommended" status for outstanding performance throughout the rigorous in-house evaluation.
The e-STUDIO3510c was noted for its excellent reliability and low acquisition cost compared to other devices in the range. This MFP displayed flawless reliability throughout its durability test—no mis-feeds and no service of any kind were required. Other areas this MFP excelled in include applications compatibility, print drivers and toner yield.
"Along with demonstrating strong reliability in BLI's 50,000-impression (durability) test, the e-STUDIO3510c has a price that's among the lowest for comparably equipped models available," said George Mikolay, associate editor, BLI. "Congratulations to Toshiba as the e-STUDIO3510c is the only business color engine to turn in a perfect reliability performance in its speed range throughout BLI's rigorous lab evaluation."
Announced twice per year, BLI's "Pick of the Year" award acknowledges the best overall performers in the company's austere lab testing in their respective segments. BLI's experienced analysts base their selections on a wide range of performance factors, including reliability, image quality, ease of use, productivity and a host of network connectivity attributes.
"Toshiba is extremely proud that the e-STUDIO3510c acquired the ‘Pick of the Year' award from BLI," said Kay Fernandez, director, Product and Solutions Marketing, TABS. "The e-STUDIO2500c/3500c/3510c series is a very competitive color MFP offering from Toshiba, already recognized with six other major industry awards. We are especially pleased to add this prestigious award from an organization as reputable as Buyers Lab to our list of accolades."
The "Pick of the Year" marks the seventh award for the e-STUDIO2500c/3500c/3510c MFP series.
e-STUDIO2500c/3500c/3510c
The e-STUDIO2500c/3500c/3510c each received the "Highly Recommended" status for perfect reliability performance in the 50,000-impression durability lab test. The four-drum single-pass e-STUDIO2500c/3500c, copying at 35 PPM monochrome, 25 PPM and 35 PPM in color respectively, offer "good" overall productivity and "very good" overall image quality in color print mode and in black print and copy modes. The series features "excellent" standard print drivers and earned "very good" ratings for end-users' and service technicians' ease of use.
e-STUDIO1101
The e-STUDIO1101 also received rave reviews during BLI's lab test, earning a "Highly Recommended" status. BLI recognized this product with "very good" overall performance, earning "excellent" or "very good" ratings in most aspects of performance. This unit copies at 110 PPM and produced "very good" output quality and rated "very good" overall ease of use, distinguished by an "excellent" control panel user interface and intuitive programming.
Toshiba's e-STUDIO1101 was "Highly Recommended" by BLI for offices in need of MFPs for monthly volumes of up to 750,000 impressions.
About Buyers Laboratory Inc.
For more than 45 years, Buyers Laboratory has been the leading independent office equipment test lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in the company's 10,000-square-foot lab, BLI has been the leading source for extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and multifunctional products. The company's databases, which cover more than 6,000 products and have a long-standing reputation for being the most reliable and complete, are available to subscribers in the form of printed specification guides, as well as CD-based and online product comparison software programs.
With its Buyers Alliance program, BLI also provides comprehensive purchasing support services to business consumers in the process of acquiring office equipment, which includes creating customized RFPs and conducting on-site document imaging device usage
assessments. In addition, Buyers Laboratory provides a vast array of confidential for-hire custom testing services, including document imaging device beta testing, print controller testing, and the testing of consumables, such as paper, toner, ink, transparencies and photoconductors. For more information on Buyers Laboratory, please visit www.buyerslab.com, call (201) 488-0404 or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.
About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing,sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has four divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; and TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of TABS, that operates a network of wholly owned office equipment dealers throughout the United States.
Named the most favored manufacturer eight times by the Business Technology Association (BTA), Toshiba’s entire product line, customer support and marketing distribution policies are markers for the industry. Among the many other awards garnered in recent years, Toshiba was named the “Manufacturer of the Year” seven times by Marketing Research Consultants (MRC), and has twice been named to the CIO 100 for being among the top 100 “bold” (2005) and “agile” (2004) companies in the world.
TABS is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the seventh largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 91st largest company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune magazine as the 10th Most Admired Electronics Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2006 was approximately $60 billion.
For more information on Toshiba copier, facsimile, multifunction printing products, network controllers or toner products, or for a dealer in your area, call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com.