Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc. announced that it has won 12 Buyers Lab (BLI) 2024 Awards from Keypoint Intelligence, including the BLI 2024 A3 Line of the Year Award and the BLI 2024-26 Most Colour Consistent A3 Brand Award.
The 2024 A3 Line of the Year Award from Keypoint Intelligence was granted after thorough testing of Kyocera’s entire A3 lineup. Kyocera’s A3 devices exhibited superior performance during this testing, and Keypoint Intelligence acknowledged consistently strong reliability, ease of use and image quality.
The research firm also pointed to the reuse of empty black toner bottles from Kyocera’s A3 machines as waste toner containers as a particularly impressive highlight.
“We are truly honoured to receive such an outstanding series of awards from Keypoint Intelligence,” said Óscar Sánchez, President & CEO of Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc. “Our organisation’s pioneering spirit and customer-centric focus have been proven for over 60 years. They continue to drive our creation of innovative products designed to provide modern professionals with solutions to their most pressing challenges.”
Kyocera also received the 2024-26 Most Colour Consistent A3 Brand Award, which is presented every three years. This award considers results from the last five years of colour-consistency analysis. Keypoint Intelligence technicians printed IT8 colour test targets at specific points during a Kyocera device’s reliability test, which were measured using a calibrated Xrite i1Pro2 spectrophotometer configured with the Xrite IO table and Xrite i1Profiler software.
In addition, Keypoint Intelligence recognised Kyocera with 2024 Pick Awards for the following 10 devices:
- TASKalfa MZ3200i
- TASKalfa MZ4000i
- TASKalfa 4004i
- TASKalfa 5004i
- TASKalfa 6004i
- TASKalfa 7004i
- TASKalfa 4054ci
- TASKalfa 5054ci
- TASKalfa 6054ci
- TASKalfa 7054ci
“Our dedication to excellence courses through every vein of our organisation. By staying true to the guiding values of our founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, we have taken pride in constructing a powerful portfolio of solutions that deliver productivity, quality, and sustainability,” concluded Sánchez.
Keypoint Intelligence also highlighted below-average colour scan file sizes, better-than-average searchable PDF accuracy, valuable help guides and remote-control panel access as factors that contributed to Kyocera’s Pick Awards this year.
“Kyocera offers an excellent lineup of A3 MFPs — congratulations to the company on winning one of our coveted Line of the Year Awards!” said Anthony Sci, President and CEO of Keypoint Intelligence. “These devices delivered exceptional results and some of the noteworthy scan features and test data clearly point toward accelerating your digital transformation (DX) needs for today’s hybrid workplace. Coupled with its award-winning colour consistency and that Kyocera earned our seal after passing the first phase of Keypoint Intelligence Security Validation Testing, it is clear to us that Kyocera has a holistic approach to developing its hardware, leaving no stone unturned.”
