Independent Testing Lab's

As a leading independent office equipment testing lab, BLI has been providing comprehensive, unbiased, and dependable product test reports since 1961. BLI's rigorous, in house product testing takes months to complete and includes an extensive durability test.

Ratings and Awards after two to three months of extensive testing, BLI issues a Laboratory Test Report for each product submitted by a manufacturer. The report assigns the product one of four ratings, such as "Highly Recommended" or "Recommended". Every June and December, BLI reviews all of the products that successfully passed it rigorous lab tests during the previous six months and awards the following honours to those that demonstrated exceptional performance

Pick of the Year given to specific devices recognised as the best of the best
Line of the Year awarded every June to a full range of copier, facsimile, or printer-based devices
Outstanding Achievement given to manufacturers that have made commendable advances in imaging devices and solutions


BERTL- known for examining a product's feature set, functionality, performance, and overall business process value from the end users' perspective- provides impartial research, product evaluation reports, product specifications and comparative analyses on office imaging devices, software, and systems ratings and Awards: Every Product that BERTL puts through its exhaustive analysis process, is assigned a BERTL Star Rating from "1 Star" up to "5 Stars, Exceptional".
 Twice a year, BERTL reviews all digital imaging devices, software, and management utilities analysed during the preceding six months and gives BERTL's Best Awards to the most outstanding of those products.

Industry Analysts, Inc. is a market research and product testing firm focusing on the imaging industry. Founded in 1974, it provides real- world, third party product verification and evaluations as well as market research on focus groups. Along with important industry overviews, Industry Analysts, Inc publishes the Office Products Analyst (OPA), a monthly office equipment newsletter featuring results compiled from thousands of surveys conducted each year with end users and dealers of copiers, printers, multifunctional products, and facsimile equipment.

Ratings and Awards: Each year OPA asks service managers from office equipment dealers to rate the products they work with. The Colour Product Reliability Survey, which rates Colour devices on key areas, is conducted via extensive phone interviews. Devices that receive a rating of 8.5 or higher out of a possible 10 are eligible to receive the Technician Recommended Award. The Best in Overall Reliability Award goes to B&W MFP’s that receive high ratings in the MFP Reliability Study on such factors as reliability when first introduced, retrofit reliability, and other critical information.

 

Analysts and experts at Better Buys for Business produce, objective, in-depth product reviews based on real world performance testing and years of experience in office equipment research and analysis. They use consumer feedback, off the record talks with dealers and manufacturers, and visits to trade shows and manufacturing facilities around the world to stay abreast of industry developments and provide expert purchasing advice.

Awards: Editor’s Choice awards, one of the most coveted honours in the office equipment industry, are bestowed only once a year on products that can serve as benchmarks of high quality, exceptional performance, and true value.