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News Release from: Buyers Laboratory
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2007
Monochrome Printers Win Best Buys
Honours
Two Ricoh monochrome printers and a Dell monochrome printer have won the Buyers Laboratory 'pick' awards in the large workgroup monochrome, large workgroup and mid-size workgroup printers categories.
The Ricoh Aficio SP 8100DN provided what was described as an excellent overall performance in Buters Laboratory's tests Buyers Laboratory's senior printer analyst, Marlene Orr, said: "The Ricoh SP 8100dn is a perfect choice for large workgroups
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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It offers very good print quality, exceptional reliability and comprehensive management utilities.
Like all Ricoh products, the SP 8100DN offers excellent feedback to users, software utilities that make managing output devices on the network easy and includes an array of standard security features to protect sensitive data." The 'pick' in the departmental monochrome printer category was the Ricoh Aficio SP 9100DN which, according to Buyers Laboratory, offers reliability, admirable productivity and good overall print quality.
The laboratory's senior test technician, Tony Maceri, commented: "The SP 9100DN can really take a pounding, even in the busiest of workgroup environments.
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It breezed through our extensive testing with no malfunctions and only a single misfeed.
And with a choice of optional finishers, audible alarm and highly visible warning beacon, it would even be a great choice for light production environments." Bert de Greeff, the manager of Ricoh Europe's printer department, said: "Ricoh is honoured to have the Aficio SP 8100DN as a leader in the large workgroup monochrome printer category.
The Aficio SP 8100DN is designed to meet the needs of the most demanding printing environments and this award is a testament to its success." And he added: "At Ricoh we understand that value and reliability are of the utmost importance to our customers and we aim to continue to deliver innovative products such as this to the market." Selected as the winner of a 'pick of the year' award in the mid-size workgroup monochrome printer category was Dell's Workgroup Laser Printer 5210.
Senior test engineer, Paul DePaolo, explained: "The Dell Workgroup Laser Printer 5210 is a robust, highly reliable machine that offers good image quality and admirable productivity." Tim Peters, Dell's vice president of imaging and printing, commented: "Recognising the Workgroup Laser 5210 as a BLI Autumn 2007 'pick' award winner confirms our commitment to provide the best printing systems to our customers.
Listening to them and creating products to meet their exact printing needs, the 5210 delivers the best reliability and performance in its class for business customers.".
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