Canon is the winner of Buyers Laboratory LLC’s (BLI) most coveted award: 2016 A3 MFP Line of the Year! BLI, the world’s leading authority on document imaging devices and solutions, presents its most coveted Line of the Year honor once annually to the vendor whose product line is determined to be the best overall, with models at every level that excel in BLI’s rigorous two-month laboratory evaluations.

Color			Black & White
iR-ADV C3325*, iR-ADV C3330	iR-ADV C5235, iR-ADV C5240, iR-ADV C5250	iR-ADV C7260, iR-ADV C7270	iR-ADV 4235, iR-ADV 4245, iR-ADV 4251	iR-ADV 6255, iR-ADV 6265,  iR-ADV 6275	iR-ADV 8295, iR-ADV 8205

* iR-ADV C3325 also won a BLI’s Winter 2016 Pick (Outstanding 21- to 30-ppm A3 Color MFP).

“Canon offers consistently outstanding products across its entire A3 line in nearly every speed band,” said BLI Senior Editor George Mikolay. “From its exceptional reliability and ease of use, to its innovation and customizability, Canon’s A3 line is the industry benchmark among its competitors.”

Canon’s outstanding reliability, top-notch ease of operation and unsurpassed flexibility offer a winning combination of devices for users at every level. Canon’s uniFLOW platform includes support for a wide range of output-centric business operations, including cost accounting/recovery, print management and routing, document security, scan workflow, mobile printing and more, while Canon’s MEAP platform integrates with Canon and third-party software to provide even more embedded and cloud-based solutions to create a full business process solutions ecosystem. Canon currently has a total of 12 A3 Pick awards. In addition, 17 of Canon’s A3 models tested have earned a Highly Recommended rating.

“Canon strives to provide customers with a complete line of products to help them achieve their specific business needs, from low-end to high-end and black and white to full color outputs,” said Junichi Yoshitake, senior vice president and general manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “The Company is honored to receive a BLI award for 2016 A3 MFP Line of the Year, recognizing the broad strength and appeal of Canon's imageRUNNER ADVANCE systems.”

Canon Won BLI Picks in the A3 MFP Category

On 27 Jan 2016, Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) announced the winners of its coveted Pick awards for the Winter 2016 season, with multifunction products from Canon claiming the honors in the A3 MFP categories. The leading provider of intelligence on the document imaging and solutions industry, BLI has been putting products to the test for more than 50 years. Its Pick awards, presented twice annually, acknowledge the hardware and software offerings that measure up as the best in their respective categories in BLI’s rigorous lab testing during the previous six months. Unique in the industry, the comprehensive tests assess a wide range of the most important features and performance factors for buyers.

Flawless reliability performance Easy operation from drivers and customizable control panel High quality print output in black mode Productive scanning Support for mobile printing and cloud-based services	Excellent reliability Outstanding value Easy operation from drivers and customizable control panel Support for mobile printing and cloud-based services Comprehensive security measures

imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3320
“Its impressive reliability performance, complemented by new and improved procedures for replacing the toner, waste toner and drums, means that downtime should be minimal,” said UK Lab Manager Martin Soane, “It also offers the comprehensive set of security features we’ve come to expect from Canon. Users are also getting a device they can count on for consistent printed color output from start to finish, and crisp text, broad grayscale range and dark solids in black mode to more than meet the needs of general office environments.”

“Ease of use is another area where this device stood out form it peers,” added BLI Senior Editor Priya Gohil. “The control panel is highly customizable, and navigation of the both the PCL 5e/6 and PostScript 3 drivers, and the touchscreen control panel for walkup activity, is simple, allowing for highly efficient programming of jobs in busy office environments.”

imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3325
“The Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3325 is an outstanding choice for workgroups looking for an affordable, reliable color device,” said BLI Senior Editor George Mikolay. “The device is priced among the lowest of its peers, and offers an above average feature set with a focus on convenience thanks to mobile print support and staple on demand via the inner finisher, which allows users to make a copy and re-staple it directly from the device. The inner finisher also features an option for staple-free stapling, which binds pages together by pressure versus staples, making the pages easier to separate and easier to recycle, too. Throw in its impressive reliability performance and ease of operation, and you have a device that stands out among its peers to more than meet the needs of general office environments.”

“Canon continuously aims to equip customers with the proper tools to securely and efficiently meet their unique business needs,” said Junichi Yoshitake, senior vice president and general manager, Business Imaging Solutions Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “Canon is pleased to receive a Pick Award for Outstanding 21- to 30-ppm A3 Color MFP, underlining the high quality color output, smart document processes and advanced security options of the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3325. This compact and user-friendly A3 multifunctional device allows busy workgroups to quickly accomplish tasks and reduce costs without compromising on image quality.”

About Buyers Laboratory LLC

 Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world’s leading independent provider of analytical information and service 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.