Konica Minolta’s magicolor 1690MF wins BERTL’s Best 2009 award

Last Updated on June 15, 2020 by Christian Ralph

Konica Minolta has received one of the BERTL’s Best Awards for its magicolor 1690MF. The independent office equipment testing lab decorated the colour laser printer as outstanding in the occasional colour A4 desktop multifunctional product (MFP) category. With the Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF home offices and small businesses benefit from high quality images and text with print, copy, scan and fax functionality in a small package.

In extensive tests over the last several months, BERTL recognised the Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF as the 2009 BERTL’s Best in “Best Occasional Color A4 Desktop MFP” due to its following characteristics: Within the magicolor 1690MF BERTL analysts observed very high quality images and text while maintaining the device’s rated speed. Konica Minolta’s proprietary Simitri polymerised toner enhances print resolution of up to 1200 x 600 dpi and the appearance of halftone photos, graphics and large-type letters that convinced the BERTL testers. They also found, that the toner’s smaller sized and more consistent particles produce the highest quality images. In addition, BERTL analysts highlighted the magicolor 1690MF’s excellent print, copy, scan and fax functionality – all in one small package.

The Konica Minolta MFP is a perfect communication wizard for home offices and small businesses. It features a standard automatic document feeder for easier handling of originals. With its speed of 5 colour or 20 monochrome pages per minute the magicolor 1690MF is just right for the diverse everyday document production and office communication. Due to its compact design and small footprint, the awarded MFP perfectly suits in any office environment with limited space. The integrated Simitri polymerised toner ensures brilliant image quality, while the toner save mode reduces toner consumption and saves costs – for example for test prints.

“The BERTL’s Best 2009 award in the category ‘Best Occasional A4 Desktop MFP’ for our magicolor 1690MF proves our leading role in desktop multifunctional products,” says Christina Stubinski, Product Manager Printer at Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “It is also an appreciation for our fruitful effort to offer a MFP that combines excellent multifunctional capabilities with high-quality colour technology and economical operation.”