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ecuted to the fullest extent of the law. To purchase reprints of any BLI reports or articles, contact BLI at (201) 488-0404. Buyers Laboratory Inc., 20 Railroad Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Contact us at [email protected].

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© 2006 Buyers Laboratory Inc. WARNING: This material is copyrighted by Buyers Laboratory Inc. and is the sole property of Buyers Laboratory. Duplication of this proprietary report or excerpts from this report, in any man-

ner, whether printed or electronic (including, but not limited to, copying, faxing, scanning or use on a fax-back system), is illegal and strictly forbidden without written permission from Buyers Laboratory. Violators will be pros-

ecuted to the fullest extent of the law. To purchase reprints of any BLI reports or articles, contact BLI at (201) 488-0404. Buyers Laboratory Inc., 20 Railroad Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Contact us at [email protected].



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Test Environment

This product was tested in BLI’s 10,000-square-foot test lab, in an environment monitored by

a Honeywell Temp/RH chart recorder, which replicates typical office conditions.

Test Equipment

BLI’s dedicated test network, consisting of Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and Microsoft Exchange

servers, Windows 2000 and XP workstations, 10BaseT/100BaseTX network switches and CAT5

cabling.

Test Duration

Products are tested for two months, five weeks of which consists of a durability test during

which the product is run at its manufacturer-rated maximum monthly duty cycle, with 50 per-

cent of the test volume comprised of copy jobs and 50 percent comprised of print jobs. BLI’s

daily test usage is designed to replicate real-world use over an eight-hour workday, and as

such includes a mix of various-size documents, simplex and duplex modes, and a mix of short,

moderate and long run lengths, and on/off cycles, throughout the day. The durability evalua-

tion also includes testing of the document feeder/scanner for an additional 10 percent of the

monthly maximum volume, evenly divided over the course of the test.

Tested Configuration

Base unit, plus optional inner two-way tray and 2 x 250-sheet cassette feeding kit.

Test Procedures

The test methods and procedures employed by BLI in its lab testing include BLI’s propri-

etary procedures and industry-standard test procedures, including a BLI-developed variation

of ASTM’s 1318-90 Test Method for Determination of Productivity using Electrostatic Copy

Machines. In addition to a number of proprietary test documents, BLI uses an industry-stan-

dard Katun test original for evaluating black image quality and test suites from Quality Logic

to evaluate applications compatibility. In addition to a visual observation, color print quality

is tested using the ANSI standard IT8 Color Test Target, which is read using the Minolta CM503I

Spectrophotometer, and samples are analyzed using the CIE XY Chromaticity Diagram. In addi-

tion, density of black and color output is measured using an X-Rite 428 Densitometer. Georgia-

Pacific Spectrum DP 20-lb. bond is used in the tests, 10 percent of which is recycled paper

containing 30 percent post-consumer content. Image quality is tested using Georgia-Pacific

Printing Paper (95 brightness, 22-lb. bond).

sUPPoRtING tEst Data

Buyers Laboratory Inc. • 20 Railroad Avenue • Hackensack, NJ 07601 • USA • (201) 488-0404

Michael Danziger

CEO

Mark Lerch

COO

Anthony F. Polifrone

Managing Director

Daria M. Hoffman

Managing Editor

Lynn Nannariello

Senior Editor

Mark Young

Senior Editor, Solutions

Marlene Orr

Printer Industry Analyst

Tracie Hines

Associate Editor

George Mikolay

Associate Editor

Carl Schell

Associate Editor

Ben Curry

Research Editor

Marc Bussanich

Technical Analyst

Camille Dendtler

Research Manager

Pete Emory

Manager of Laboratory

Testing

Pia Beddiges

Manager of Field Testing

Ken Nardone

Technical Manager, Field Testing

Anthony Marchesini

IT Director

T. R. Patrick

Art Director

This report has been reproduced with the written permission of Buyers Laboratory Inc. Any duplication of this report, in whole or part, in any form or manner,
without the written permission of Buyers Laboratory, is unlawful and violators will be prosecuted. © 2006 Buyers Laboratory Inc. To purchase reprints,

contact BLI at (201) 488-0404 (x17) or at [email protected].

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