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About zLI's Picks
Twice a year with its "Pick" and "Outstanding Achievement" awards, BLI gives special recognition in each
category to those products that provided the most outstanding performances in BLI's exhaustive lab tests,
as well as to products and capabilities that stand out for their innovation, usefulness or value.
BLI's awards stand alone in that they are based on a rigorous battery of lab tests that takes approximately
two months to complete and includes an extensive durability test, during which each unit is run at the
manufacturer's maximum recommended volume. Bus durability test is unique among office product eval-
uations and uniquely qualifies BLI to assess reliability, which is a critical factor for buyers and IT directors,
given that virtually all of the products are designed for use on networks.
In addition to assessing reliability, in terms of the number of service calls and PM (preventive maintenance)
calls required, as well as misfeed frequency, BLI's comprehensive evaluation includes an assessment of
copy and print quality, productivity, ease of use and economy, as welt as connectivity issues such as
feedback to workstations, administrative utilities, print drivers, multitasking and scanning solutions Each
product that successfully passes BLI's lab test earns BLI's "Recommended" or "Highly Recommended"
seal and a BLI "Certificate of Reliability" and qualifies as a "Pick" award contender. Consequently, a BLI
"Pick" is a hard-earned award that buyers and IT directors can trust to better guide them in their acquisition
decisions.
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Fall 2009 Pick Awards1r
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