Konica Minolta Business Solutions have yet again proved that they are No.1 in the A3 printer market by winning the “Best Productivity Hardware” award at the Macworld Awards 2008. Following on from the huge success of the magicolor® 7450, Konica Minolta have won the award for the second time in a row with their new A3 printer magicolor® 8650DN. Up against Konica Minolta were OKI, Brother, Lexmark and Xerox.

There was no hiding the delight from Mark Lloyd, Director -  IT Channel for Konica Minolta Business Solutions. “Konica Minolta Business Solutions are a class above in the A3 market. Our A3 printers are becoming an essential product in the creative design business.”

Proving that they are unrivalled, competitors do not come close in versatility, flexibility and quality. With a 1 Ghz, 64 BIT memory, 35 pages per minute print speed, a duty cycle of up to 150,000 prints per month, it is not difficult to see why Konica Minolta cannot be rivalled in the A3 printer category.

Delivering unrivalled high quality documents, the magicolor® 8650DN uses Simitri HD polymerised toner combined with PhotoART 19200 technology, printing at 600x600x5 - bit contone. Konica Minolta’s magicolor® 8650DN has become core hardware within the creative design sector with a majority of clients conspiring from the creative, design, marketing and PR industries.

Prior to being nominated for the Macworld Awards 2008, Macworld voted Konica Minolta’s magicolor 8650DN Editors Choice in a review of all the new A3 printers on the market. “The magicolor® 8650DN is at the time of writing, the current top-end A3+ model (with the 7450 immediately below), and it’s a very impressive beast indeed!”

What will be interesting is what Konica Minolta have up their sleeve for the next generation of A3 printers.