BLI Honours Eight Models with “Outstanding Achievement in Energy Efficiency” Awards

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Hong Kong (HK) Buyers Laboratory LLC, the world’s leading independent tester of document imaging products, today awarded “Outstanding Achievement” accolades to the most energy-efficient models tested in the past six months, with honours going to models from Canon and other 5 companies. Canon models exhibited significantly lower than average energy consumption for their respective product categories and offer a variety of environmentally friendly features to help users reduce their overall environmental impact.

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Hong Kong (HK) Buyers Laboratory LLC, the world’s leading independent tester of document imaging products, today awarded “Outstanding Achievement” accolades to the most energy-efficient models tested in the past six months, with honours going to models from Canon and other 5 companies. Canon models exhibited significantly lower than average energy consumption for their respective product categories and offer a variety of environmentally friendly features to help users reduce their overall environmental impact.

CANON, INC.

Canon imageCLASS LBP6780x
Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE 500i

After analysing the results for the top performers in a range of printer and MFP categories, Canon imageCLASS LBP6780x Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE 500i were given Winter 2014 “Outstanding Achievement” awards. Two A4-size Canon devices earned energy efficiency accolades this test season. When compared against the average of their respective competitive groups, the imageCLASS LBP6780x exhibited a projected annual energy consumption rate 50 percent lower than average and the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 500i had a projected annual energy rate 61 percent lower than average. Plus, each device offers a job review mode, which allows users to review settings prior to printing or copying to reduce waste; and toner-save mode, which helps users reduce toner use.


About Buyers Laboratory LLC
Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry.

For over 50 years, buyers have relied on BLI to help them differentiate products’ strengths and weaknesses and make the best purchasing decisions, while industry sales, marketing and product professionals have turned to BLI for insightful competitive intelligence and valued guidance on product development, competitive positioning and sales channel and marketing support. Using BLI’s web-based bliQ and Solutions Center services, 40,000 professionals worldwide create extensive side-by-side comparisons of hardware and software solutions for over 15,000 products globally, including comprehensive specifications and the performance results and ratings from BLI’s unparalleled Lab, Solutions and Environmental Test Reports, the result of months of hands-on evaluation in its US and UK labs. The services, also available via mobile devices, include a comprehensive library of BLI’s test reports, an image gallery, hard to find manufacturers’ literature and valuable tools for configuring products, calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) and annual power usage. BLI also offers consulting and private, for-hire testing services that help manufacturers develop and market better products and consumables.


Mr. Raymond Fung, Vice President of Business Imaging Group represented Canon Hongkong to receive Line of the Year Award for Energy Efficiency A4 regarding imageRUNNER ADVANCE 500i.