*NEWS*PANASONIC COLOR MFPs RATED #1

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Panasonic Color MFPs Rated #1 for Reliability
Office
Equipment Service Managers Who Responded to the Office Products Analyst
Annual Multifunctional Reliability Study Gave Panasonic Color MFPs
Their Highest Rating for Reliability
SECAUCUS,
N.J.–Jan.  2006–There is no better barometer of product reliability
than the repair experts who service office equipment day-in and
day-out. The Office Products Analyst (OPA) gathered data for its 2005
study from a group of these experts consisting of 148 service managers
and encompassing 43,766 color and monochrome A3 multifunction products
(MFP). The service managers, who were asked to rate color and
monochrome devices based on specific criteria, responded by rating
Panasonic color MFPs at the head of the class in the all-important
reliability category.
According to Andy Slawetsky, vice president
for Industry Analysts, Inc., which publishes the Office Products
Analyst, Panasonic’s top reliability rating for its color MFPs comes as
no surprise. “Panasonic obviously invested considerable resources in
the development of their current color devices,” Slawetsky says. “Not
only are they full of unique features, but they also run very reliably.”
In
taking top honors for reliability, Panasonic color MFPs beat out the
other manufacturers included in the study–Canon, Ricoh, Sharp, Konica
Minolta, Toshiba and Kyocera Mita. Steve Mullin, president of Panasonic
Digital Document Company, attributes Panasonic’s recent ascendance in
the color MFP segment in large part to the restructuring that took
place at Panasonic at the factory level.
“When we merged three
factories into one, our engineers were able take full advantage of the
various technologies that were previously ‘owned’ by individual
factories under autonomous management,” Mullin says. “The fruits of
this merger are very much evident in the C3 color MFP series, which was
developed under the new alignment. The series features our most
technologically advanced, best-selling color MFPs to date.
OPA
defines an MFP as any “platen-based device that can be connected to a
personal computer or local area network and which supports at least two
of the four traditional office functions (copying, scanning, faxing and
printing).”
Panasonic offers a broad line of award-winning MFPs and
copiers with features and functionalities that meet the varied needs of
workgroups and corporate departments at speeds ranging from 22 ppm to
81 ppm.
ABOUT PANASONIC
In the United States, Panasonic Digital
Document Company, a unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America,
markets a broad line of digital imaging systems, computer peripherals
and office system products designed specifically for business use.
Products available include fax and Internet fax machines, digital
copiers, network multifunction devices, document management systems,
scanners, electronic whiteboards, color and monochrome laser printers
and impact printers. Headquartered in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic
Corporation of North America is the principal North American subsidiary
of Matsush*ta Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. of Osaka, Japan. For more
information, visit http://www.panasonic.com/office.

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January 18, 2006 at 10:52 AM