Hackensack, NJ – Continuing with its Spring 2008 “Pick” awards, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) announced the winners in the wide-format category today, with accolades going to HP, Canon and Xerox. The world’s leading tester of document imaging products for close to half a century, BLI added wide-format products to its offerings a year ago to address the growing demand for information from the graphics, engineering and corporate markets. Today’s “Picks” are the first awarded by BLI in this increasingly important category. Presented semi-annually, the “Picks” acknowledge the best products tested in their respective categories in a wide range of performance areas. In the case of wide-format products, these include reliability, ease of use, image quality and productivity, among others.

Spring 2008 Wide-Format “Pick” winner is:

Xerox 6204 Offers Exceptional Versatility
BLI’s “Pick” for “Outstanding Wide-Format Monochrome MFP,” the Xerox 6204 demonstrated both excellent reliability and impressive ease of use. The 6204 is distinguished from other MFPs by its integrated 36-inch scanner, which allows for a smaller footprint, although it is also available with an optional standalone 42” color scanner with a faster speed of up to 7.3 inches per second. BLI’s Tischner said, “This MFP does it all and does it all extremely well,” noting in particular its very good print and copy quality, quiet operation, easy-to-navigate control panel and simple supplies replacement. While BLI tested the 6204 as a copier/printer/scanner with the optional FreeFlow Accxes Controller, this versatile model comes standard with a basic print controller and is available in four configurations. It also enables users to upgrade the standard 4-ppm print speed to 5 ppm.